Quecreek Mine Rescue Anniversary Will Be Marked By Six-Day Celebration

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

July 5, 2012 | 10:50 AM

It’s been a decade since nine coal miners were pulled out of the ground alive at the Quecreek Mine. As the AP reports, the rescue’s ten-year anniversary will be honored later this month:

SIPESVILLE — A six-day celebration is planned to mark the 10th anniversary of the rescue of nine miners trapped underground in the Quecreek Mine in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The events planned by The Quecreek Mine Rescue Foundation will culminate with a ceremony on July 28 at 11 a.m. attended by former Gov. Mark Schweiker, who was on-site helping to direct the rescue.
All nine trapped miners were rescued from a flooded shaft 200 feet below ground following a 77-hour ordeal that ended July 28, 2002.
Some of the rescued miners and the crews who helped save them will appear on July 26 for photographs and to sign autographs.