'rescue drill' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a drill or practice exercise used to prepare people for a rescue or other emergency. For example: "The fire department is conducting a rescue drill this afternoon in the city park."
The first words of survival came soon after the mine ceiling was breached by the rescue drill.
Atop the rescue drill, operators of the T-130, which beat out two other rigs working simultaneously to reach the miners, celebrated by pumping their fists in the air and spraying each other with Champagne.
"Let me also commend so many people of goodwill, not only in Chile, but also from the United States and around the world, who are lending a hand in this rescue effort — from the NASA team that helped design the escape vehicle, to American companies that manufactured and delivered parts of the rescue drill, to the American engineer who flew in from Afghanistan to operate the drill.
The BBC's Christian Fraser took part in an Avalanche rescue drill in Montgenèvre on the Franco-Italian border.
Note: Many of the images show a professional rescue drill.
They also had jobs to do, including reinforcing walls and clearing debris from the rescue drills.
At age 8, Mr. Hunter would coax friends into mock rescue drills, using the family's water hose and a ladder.
Pakistan also called up all civil defense volunteers in the capital, Islamabad, and ordered firefighting and first-aid and rescue drills in anticipation of a clash with India, according to the state-run A.P.P. news agency.
"I thought, 'This is it.' " But the air pipe managed to sustain the men, and they began tracking the on-again, off-again noise of the rescue drilling above.
The rescue hole drilling will force rock to fall into the mine shaft area near the trapped men.
Using Mr. Long's calculations, the rescue team drilled a hole that carried warm air to the soaked and frigid miners, and then the shaft through which they escaped.
