Chile Frees Three of 33 Miners in Longest Rescue

Chilean rescue workers pulled three of 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months in a rescue operation watched by relatives on site and millions of voltas stone crusher in indiapeople around the world on television.

Florencio Avalos emerged from the San Jose copper mine at 11:12 p.m. New York time after being trapped in a tunnel more than 600 meters (1,970 feet) underground, according to a broadcast by state television channel TVN. Mario Sepulveda reached the surface an hour later, followed by Juan Illanes. “I am so overwhelmed with emotion because it’s been so long since we have seen him,” Avalos’ father Alfonso said in comments broadcast by TVN. “I am so content, so happy. Thank God that he emerged so strong.” Avalos embraced his wife and son and Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera before being taken to a mobile hospital as rescuers shouted “Long Live Chile.” Sepulveda joked with rescuers and Pinera, who will oversee the rescue of the remaining men over the next 24 hours to 48 hours at the mine in the Atacama Desert. The four-meter long “Phoenix” capsule painted in the red, white and blue colors of the Chilean flag is acting as an elevator, hoisting the miners to the surface through a 26-inch wide rescue hole. More than 1 billion people watched the rescue live on television networks around the world, TVN reported. Embraces and Confetti Families embraced and threw confetti at the mine site where they have camped for more than two months to await the rescue of the men. They had lit fires to fend off the cold. Police erected barricades to protect the families from hundreds of reporters. “I’m so happy; it’s historic,” said Lily Ramirez, wife of 63-year-old Mario Gomez, the oldest miner. “My husband is still down there. I just hope they all get out okay.” The miners were discovered alive on Aug. 22 after being trapped since Aug. 5, when the mine’s access collapsed. The miners’ only contact with the outside world was through drill holes that were used to discover them and through which they receive food, water and medicine. The survival of the San Jose miners surpasses a 25-day rescue of three coal miners in a flooded mine in Guizhou, China in 2009. “Chileans and the entire world are not going to...