2010 Year in News: Disasters


    On January 12th, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti, leaving nearly a quarter-million people dead.  FOX News Radio’s Eben Brown met up with an American search-and-rescue team in the flattened capital of Port-au-Prince, finding a city of devastation…

    What was one of the biggest feel good stories of the year looked grim in the beginning—The ordeal began in August, 33 miners, trapped thousands of feet underground in Chile.  It took two weeks for rescue crews to be able to drill a hole just big enough to get a camera to the group where it was discovered that, amazingly, they had ALL survived. Crews worked around the clock to get a tunnel dug for a rescue capsule, finally pulling the last man from the mine in October, 69 days after their ordeal began.  FOX News Radio’s David Noto was there as cheers erupted for each miner’s return to the surface…

    https://radio.foxnews.com/2010/10/15/foreign-dispatch-cheering-for-the-miners-3/