It took four to five hours for the rescue workers to arrive, he says.
After-shocks, some severe, continued to affect the area, making the rescue workers' task harder and more dangerous.
"Everyone who is here recognizes and appreciates the work being done by the rescue workers, " said lawyer Edgardo Reinoso.
When the rescue workers pulled her out, she was still holding her pen.
When more people are pulled out alive, that gives lots of encouragement to the rescue workers, many of whom are local volunteers.
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The rescue workers chanted "U-S-A, U-S-A." In that moment a deep wound and patriotism gave the American President great freedom to act.
Meanwhile, Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy praised the rescue workers involved in the operation and promised that any action necessary to protect safety would be taken.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the rescue workers' efforts.
Our course done, we were ready to go in, right up to the collapse site where the rescue workers were drilling to find the six miners.
For one thing, Arab reporters are live on the scene and what you've seen is some television reporters break down in tears, as well as some of the rescue workers.
Moore does find some help for the rescue workers in Havana (the other sick Americans mysteriously vanish), and the rest of the movie is devoted to the wonders of health care in Canada, England, and France as well as in Cuba.
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama joined the list, hailing the rescue "as a tribute not only to the determination of the rescue workers and the Chilean government, but also the miners and the Chilean people who have inspired the world, " the White House said in a news release.
Chen's right-hand man, Vice Premier Yu Shyi-kun, resigned to take the heat for the failure to rescue the stranded workers.
Outside the lab, rescue workers in the less-developed world might use portable gene machines to trace bacteria or viruses causing waterborne epidemics.
It would have been politically unwise for Bush to accept a plan that asserted moral equivalence between Israel and the PLO when rescue workers were scraping the body parts of Israeli children off the walls of bombed out pizzerias and bar mitzva parties.
As the waters recede, the task facing rescue workers is to bring the animals safely back across a highway and railroad, into the park.
Still, the estimated time it will take to rescue the workers has not changed, they said.
Government officials have also said the company will bear the cost of the army of rescue workers and drilling teams being flown in from around the world.
The heroism and selflessness of so many of the fire fighters and rescue workers involved helped to counteract the evil that was in evidence behind this attack.
Local TV footage showed the wreckage of the bus and the motorcycle, as rescue workers rushed wounded people to hospitals in the city.
Last week, rescue coordinator Andre Sougarret said initially the Schramm T-130, would be used to drill a 12-inch bore hole down to the miners to enable rescue workers to deliver larger survival items for the miners, but he said if possible the same drill would be used to widen the hole to 28 inches -- sufficient to hoist the miners back to the surface.
Government officials said a land and air operation to rescue the workers was under way.
The United States commends the government of Lebanon and the United Nations rescue workers in their immediate response and recovery effort.
Though it has been seven days since anyone was pulled alive from the rubble, Angeli, Steelman and the other underground rescue workers are saying there are enough open spaces, with food and water, for people to survive.
In the spirit that moved rescue workers and firefighters to charge into darkness and danger that September morning, we see the same sense of moral responsibility that drove countless Americans to give of themselves in the months that followed.
Angry crowds are reported to have gathered in the area immediately following the blast, pelting police and initially refusing to let them and rescue workers reach the scene of the blast.
The overall picture of the destruction remains patchy, with rescue workers unable to reach some of the worst-hit areas due to wrecked roads and tsunami warnings.
Police cordoned off the building site, pushing back thousands of bystanders and relatives, after rescue workers said the crowds were hampering their work.
China's response at the time was widely criticized as soldiers and rescue workers struggled to reach the worst-hit areas.
This morning, I can report that the first waves of our rescue and relief workers are on the ground and at work.
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