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Hugs and cheers after West Virginia mine rescue

NATS: CHEERS Family and friends overjoyed, after three people were rescued from a mine in Whitesville, West Virginia Wednesday evening.

SOUNDBITE: RANDALL WILLIAMS, KAYLA'S FATHER, SAYING: "They got em, all three - they got a few medical conditions, but they're gonna be okay, they're gonna be all fine..." Erica Treadway, Cody Beverly, and Kayla Williams entered the abandoned coal mine on Saturday.

They were trapped for five days.

When they were finally brought to the surface, they were covered in coal dust.

Treadway had lost her shoes.

NATS: ERICA SAYING I LOVE YA, I LOVE YA.

A fourth person, Eddie Williams, found his way out on Monday and alerted authorities about his missing friends.

SOUNDBITE: WV GOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE, SAYING: "This a miracle from the Lord because things don't usually end up this way." SOUNDBITE: WV GOVERNOR JIM JUSTICE, SAYING: "Right when they were gathering together, all of them hit me on the shoulder and said we're gonna get em, we're gonna find em.

And they did." Rescuers faced dangerously low oxygen levels as they searched underground.

SOUNDBITE: EUGENE WHITE, WEST VIRGINIA MINERS' HEALTH, SAFETY AND TRAINING DIRECTOR, SAYING: "We go into these events not to recover.

We go to rescue." Officials say the group had entered the mine to look for copper wire that they could resell.

Authorities say it's possible the four could be charged with trespassing.




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