Rescue Of Luis Urzua, The Final Chilean Miner, Ends 69-Day Ordeal

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by Hillary Busis | 9:22 pm, October 13th, 2010

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This evening, the world breathed a sigh of relief when the dramatic rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners—which began last night—drew to a close.

54-year-old Luis Urzua was the last miner to emerge from the ground. Urzua, who was serving as the San Jose mine’s shift supervisor, volunteered to stay in the mine until his 32 comrades had all been rescued. As CNN reports, his leadership and instructions to his men—”among them, to ration the little food and liquid that they had in a small refuge”—are credited with keeping everyone in the group alive for 17 days, before rescuers could locate them.

“What happened today was watched by 1.2 billion people,” said Ariel Ticona, the 32nd miner rescued, according to a Fox News translator. Though it’s unclear where Ticona got that undoubtedly inflated figure, he’s right to imply that the rescue has drawn an enormous amount of media coverage.

Video of the Urzua’s rescue, from Fox News, is below.

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chucken

This is a teaching moment for all you limited government types who deride experts,people with an education and federal workers,and of course elected leaders that think they are not needed and should be downsized.This was government and private industry working together so solve a problem.One could not do it without the other.
Big_F-ing_Deal

Thank God. This story has been played out. I didn’t really need to see each one come up and preempt regular cable news programming.

Nothing bores me more than a girl-in-a-well story.
alamo2

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Thank God. This story has been played out. I didn’t really need to see each one come up and preempt regular cable news programming. Nothing bores me more than a girl-in-a-well story.

As one liberal (moderate) to another, you didn’t need to make such a stupid comment. I watched a lot of this, and thought it was incredibly inspirational. This was (is) a great moment for all of humanity.
Newsjunky

What an amazing story. A 24 hours I won’t soon forget. Congratulations to everyone involved in an incredible ending.
Azarkhan

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Thank God. This story has been played out. I didn’t really need to see each one come up and preempt regular cable news programming.
Nothing bores me more than a girl-in-a-well story.

LOL
stoogedudes

Miracles really do happen.

Finally, a HAPPY story!
Big_F-ing_Deal

alamo2 said:
As one liberal (moderate) to another, you didn’t need to make such a stupid comment. I watched a lot of this, and thought it was incredibly inspirational. This was (is) a great moment for all of humanity.

Great story, boring TV. It was as exciting as watching someone go up and down in an elevator.
Azarkhan

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
It was as exciting as watching someone go up and down in an elevator

A very slooow elevator. I’m bummed because ordinarily I’d be getting brainwashed by Fox News, but they’ve been covering this story.
felixw

CNN is so good at covering disasters. Makes me think they should devote round-the-clock coverage to the state of the Parker-Spitzer show.