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By: Reuters
10- 18-2010
The first of 33 trapped miners was pulled to safety in a capsule barely . Rescuers, relatives, and friends were
cheered as 31 year old father of two Florencio Avalos began his claustrophobic ascent of 2,050 feet through thick
Rock. The men have spent 68 days in the hot, humid bowels of the gold and copper mine in Chile's northern Atacama desert.
Everybody was nervous wives, children, parents and friends waited on an arid, rocky hillside above San Jose mine. The rescue. teams started an evacuation expiated to take up to 48 hours. Each man's journey to safety should take 12 to 15 minutes. The
Capsule travels at about 3 feet per second, or a casual walking pace, and can speed to 10 feet per second if the miner being carried gets into trouble.The miners were being given dark glasses to avoid damaging their eyesight after spending so long in lit tunnel. They will be under observation at the hospital for two days. Everybody celebrates the rescued of the miners.
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