Tag: trapped
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Woman rescued after getting trapped in crevice for 7 hours while retrieving phone
Her friends tried to free her to no avail and after she was hanging upside down for over an hour, her friends called Triple Zero, Australia’s emergency call number. NSW Ambulance responded with a team to remove heavy boulders to create a “safe access point,” the release said. “With care, a hardwood frame was built…
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One dead, a dozen others trapped inside Colorado tourist mine after equipment malfunction
At least one person is dead and others are injured after an equipment malfunction trapped nearly two dozen people underground in a Colorado tourist mine, officials with the Teller County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday. Eleven people have been rescued, the sheriff’s office said, and officials are working to get to the 12 people who remain…
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Volunteer pilots are flying supplies to trapped Hurricane Helene victims
“The amount of supplies that have been donated, the number of pilots who have shown up with their own planes and at their own expense, has been amazing,” said Carroll, 36, of Durham, North Carolina. “Some of the pilots have been flying in with their planes already packed with supplies.” Pilot Gerald Herbert, 60, who…
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Tennessee investigating plastics factory after workers trapped by Hurricane Helene floods died, went missing
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the state’s criminal investigation agency, said Wednesday it is looking into allegations against an Erwin plastics factory where several workers died and some went missing after they were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene. “At the request of 1st Judicial District Attorney General Steve Finney, TBI agents are investigating…
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North Carolina man jumps into Helene flood waters to save trapped woman
A North Carolina man made a “calculated risk,” jumping into fast-moving, Helene-swollen waters to save a woman because he “couldn’t watch her die.” Eddie Hunnell, 57, was in Grassy Creek ahead of son Austin Hunnell’s Saturday wedding when he saw floodwaters picking up Lesley Worth’s home. Video footage captured onlookers standing on the banks of…
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Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees. Some are among the missing, dead.
Families began learning the grim news Monday that their loved ones were among the workers who did not survive when floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped them at a eastern Tennessee plastics factory. Family members, some of whom had gotten frantic video phone calls from their loved ones as the waters swelled, were learning the fate…