The police and emergency services are mobilized in the small town of Marguerite, in Pennsylvania (United States), where a sixty-year-old woman has disappeared. She had gone looking for her cat and fell into a mine.
Is Elizabeth Pollard still alive? That's the question nagging emergency responders and authorities in Marguerite, Pennsylvania, after the 64-year-old woman went missing. She was last seen on Monday December 2, around 5 p.m., with her 5-year-old granddaughter, by customers of a restaurant. Elizabeth had gone by car with her granddaughter in search of her cat Pepper, who had been missing for several days, reports CNN.
But they never returned to the grandmother's home. After several hours of searching, authorities found Elizabeth's car and her granddaughter, but not the sixty-year-old. A few steps from the car, a very deep hole was discovered. Emergency services were called to the scene, assuming Elizabeth was trapped inside.
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It is in fact a hole that formed above mining galleries, very common in this region of the United States. Authorities remain confident that Elizabeth will survive, despite falling nearly 30 feet and being trapped without a source of oxygen and with temperatures hovering around -2°C in the area. Indeed, the underground galleries would allow the sixty-year-old to have the oxygen necessary to survive, and it would be around 12°C underground. “Nothing tells us that she is not alive or that she did not survive. We cannot be 100% sure”declared Steve Liamini, member of the rescue team, to the press.
More “the integrity of the mine is already beginning to be compromised”he explains. So, surveillance equipment was deployed to try to detect a trace of life. A shoe “rather modern” was even discovered, which suggests the presence of Elizabeth in this hole. In addition, pumps were made available to extract any water that might be present in the mine. So far, the search has not been successful, but is continuing.
published on December 4 at 3:25 p.m., Philippine Rouviere Flamand, 6Medias
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