Miners broke through stone into the uncharted mine shaft on the night of July 24, 2002, releasing millions of gallons of water and trapping them more than 200 feet below the surface.
Crews drilled a small shaft and lowered a small metal capsule, bringing them up one by one until the last was lifted to safety early on the morning of July 28.Schweiker, the former lieutenant governor who had been elevated nine months earlier after Gov. Tom Ridge was picked to run the newly formed U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Saturday’s gathering was like a family reunion.
"This weekend is about reflection and being grateful for dedicated first responders," Schweiker said, referring to the team that came together to save the miners. One of the other miners rescued, Dennis Hall, 68, died May 13 and was also honored Saturday. Kelsey Mayhugh was just 7 when she and her mother learned her father, the youngest of the miners, was trapped.
"I was really scared. And all I wondered was when my dad was coming home," she said. "He really didn’t talk too much about it for the next 10 years.""I believed in religion more after the incident, and I appreciated life a lot, definitely a lot more," he said. "You think nothing’s going to ever happen to you, at your guys’ age, and then something like that puts it in perspective that it could happen anytime to anybody.
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