Sentence examples for rescue dig from inspiring English sources

In those days there was still no legislation requiring a preventive rescue dig.

"They needed quick access for troops with room to get past anything else using the road," said Mark Stephens, of the Yorkshire archaeological consultancy MAP, which organised the rescue dig in advance of local road improvements.

Mick Aston writes: In 1964, when I was a geography student at Birmingham University, Philip was looking for volunteers for rescue digs around the Midlands.

A2 World Briefing A4 NATIONAL A6-9 Hope Flagging for Miners After Mishap Slows Rescue Emergency crews, stymied through the day after a drill snapped off in an incomplete rescue shaft, labored to resume digging toward nine trapped coal miners in Quecreek, Pa.

Then I realized that I was seeing emergency lights brought in to help rescue workers dig through the rubble in a futile search for survivors.

At least 34 people have been killed, but officials feared that many more will be found as rescue teams dig through feet of mud.

Video on television showed ambulances rushing to the scene, which had been cut off by heavy snowfall, and snowplows clearing the road to the hotel, nestled in the Gran Sasso National Park, allowing through heavy machinery that would help rescue workers dig through the debris.

The death toll currently stands at 119, according to the AP, though that number is expected to rise as rescue crews dig through the rubble.

Crews struggled for two and a half days to rescue her, digging a deep parallel shaft and then a 63-inch horizontal tunnel through bedrock to join the two shafts.

Rescue workers dug through the rubble of damaged homes in a race to find victims.

There was little chitchat as rescue workers dug through the rubble.