She was 18 months old in 1987 and fell down a wellnews/2013/05/10/18169651-from-baby-jessica-to-the-chilean-miners-miracle-survivals-and-escapes?lite (Why isn’t it hiding the link?) and was trapped for about 3 days. Talk about the country being riveted to the TV. When she fell in, she fell in such a way that one leg was trapped against her body, foot point toward her head. Reading the article now, they’re saying it was wedged in a crevice. I remember them thinking they might just yank her out, even though it was going to break her leg. _“Rescuers ultimately chose to drill a tunnel parallel to the well and connect a shaft through solid rock to rescue her.” I cried like a baby when they finally pulled her out.

I’m reading an article on her, 20 years later She has no memory of the incident. I thought this was interesting: ”Not until she was five years old — more than three years after the rescue effort that captivated the nation and the world — did she learn her own story. She was watching an episode of “Rescue 911” about a little girl trapped in a well and was moved to tears by it. She asked her stepmother — her parents, Cissy and Chip McClure, had divorced by then — about the girl and was told it was her.” From this article