Somerset, Pennsylvania - Quecreek Mine Rescue Memorial

Somerset, Pennsylvania - Quecreek Mine Rescue Memorial

A miner miracle, lifting the nation's post-9/11 spirits. Exhibits the rescue capsule that saved everyone. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Somerset, Fire Hall Too Feeble for Mine Rescue Move
Plans to move the Sipesville Fire Hall to the Quecreek Rescue Memorial site have been cancelled. As we reported in our visit story, the folks at Quecreek were hoping to transport the original firehall to the rescue site, since the building was a critical information and assembly hub for families during the mine flood crisis.... [08/22/2006] Complete News Story

Somerset, Pennsylvania - Quecreek Miner statue

The rescued and the rescuers are remembered with the Quecreek Miner statue. A new monument was unveiled this summer in a memorial park in Somerset, PA, near the site where nine miners were rescued in western Pennsylvania in 2002. The rescue shaft and empty field had been all visitors could gawk at until now.

The long term plan is to complete the Queecreek Miner Memorial with 31 bronze figures recreating the moment when living miners started to emerge from the rescue tunnel. It will be completed by July 2004, 2nd anniversary of the rescue. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 09/16/2003]