All 17 miners stuck in NY salt mine hoisted to surface (update)
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Source: AP
LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Seventeen miners trapped 900 feet underground at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere were rescued Thursday morning, ending an ordeal that officials said began about 10 hours earlier when their elevator got stuck.
A crane hoisted the last two miners to the surface at the Cayuga Salt Mine in central New York before 9 a.m., said Mark Klein, a spokesman for mine owner Cargill Inc.
The miners were descending to the floor of the 2,300-foot-deep mine — nearly deep enough to fit two Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other — to start their shift when the elevator broke down around 10 p.m. Wednesday, Klein said.
Emergency workers were able to communicate via radio with the miners, who had blankets, heat packs and other supplies lowered to them. Klein said the miners were never in danger.
The fourth group of workers emerge from an elevator Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, after they were stuck overnight in a shaft at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y. Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein said all 17 miners have been rescued. (Simon Wheeler/The Ithaca Journal via AP, Pool)
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/53a855ad5d344e99abfea33bba69d3d2/17-miners-stuck-ny-salt-mine-crews-trying-reach-them
LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Emergency crews rescued 15 of 17 miners who were stuck for hours in an elevator 900 feet underground at a central New York salt mine that's the deepest in the Western Hemisphere, officials said Thursday.
Mark Klein, a spokesman for Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc., said efforts to rescue the two remaining miners were continuing. Klein said they were not in danger, and added the rescue operation could be completed soon.
Four miners were hoisted to the surface in a basket around 7 a.m. at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, about 40 miles outside Syracuse.
Four more miners were rescued in the same manner about 30 minutes later, and another seven were brought to the surface by 8:30 a.m., Klein said.
FULL story at link. Original rescue story below.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/718a7318a34542bba3035fea86d61746/latest-4-17-miners-stuck-ny-salt-mine-rescued
LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — The latest on 17 miners stuck in an elevator at a salt mine in central New York (all times local):
7:50 a.m.
Eight of 17 miners stuck in an elevator at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere have been rescued.
Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says four miners were raised to the surface in a basket around 7 a.m. Thursday at the company's mine in the central New York town of Lansing. Four more were rescued around 7:30 a.m.
FULL story at link.
This photo provided by the Ithaca Fire Department shows a crane that will assist the rescue of seventeen miners stuck in an elevator underground at the Cargill Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Tompkins County Emergency Management officials say the miners have been trapped since late Wednesday night at the mine, about 40 miles outside Syracuse, and are not in any danger. (Ithaca Fire Department via AP)
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