Randy Fogle, the first miner rescued during the dramatic Quecreek mine rescue that captivated the nation in 2002, has died at ...

AND READ ABOUT HOW YOU CAN HELP. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY, NINE COAL MINERS IN SOMERSET COUNTY WERE RESCUED DAYS AFTER BEING TRAPPED 240 FEET BELOW GROUND. THEY SPENT FIVE DAYS IN FRIGID WEATHER AND ...

Hall is credited with helping save the lives of nine other nearby miners when he made a call and warned about water rushing into the mine. Late into the night on Wednesday, July 24, 2002, coal miners ...

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. — A Somerset County farmer had a front row seat to a miracle. Bill Arnold’s family owns the farm near Quecreek Mine. It was on his farm, hundreds of miles below ground, where nine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first of several public events begin this week as Somerset County remembers the 20 th anniversary of the Quecreek Mine Rescue ...

"We are requiring Black Wolf Coal Co. to drill horizontally 2,000 feet from both sides of the entry where the miners were trapped to ensure there are no other abandoned voids projecting out from the ...

The miners became trapped 200 feet underground when the mine flooded on the night of July 24 after they broke through an uncharted mine shaft. Rescue efforts involved drilling a hole down to the area ...

Two decades after the last Quecreek miner was pulled to safety, four men with deep roots in Pennsylvania coal country have carried forward the lessons learned during those anguish-filled days in July ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 14—A time line of moments in July 2002, when nine miners were trapped underground at the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County and ...

SOMERSET, Pa. (KDKA) -- It's been 20 years since the world witnessed the Quecreek Mine rescue. Nine miners trapped in a flooded mine were rescued by a team of experts and equipment operators. Jeff ...