The latest on the AP has all nine rescued.
SOMERSET, Pa. (July 28) - Rescue workers on Sunday pulled all nine miners one-by-one from the watery, 240-foot-deep shaft where they had been trapped for three days, a jubilant reward for an effort fraught with one gut-wrenching setback after another.
The first words from the miners were blunt. ``What took you so long?'' one of the miners asked, according to a rescuer.
Ron Svonavec, of Somerset, was at the top of the rescue shaft when contact was first made. He said one of them said, ``There's nine men ready to get the hell out of here. We need some chew.''
"We need some chew" Yeah, they are all OK.