{"id":6535,"date":"2023-09-08T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T07:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/effort-to-free-trapped-american-to-begin-as-soon-as-friday\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T07:53:24","slug":"effort-to-free-trapped-american-to-begin-as-soon-as-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/effort-to-free-trapped-american-to-begin-as-soon-as-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort to free trapped American to begin as soon as Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">MERSIN PROVINCE, Turkey \u2014\u00a0Turkish rescuers are ready to being the process of freeing an American caver stuck over 3,000 feet underground within the next few days, an emergency management official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWith this good news, with doctors saying you can take him out now, slowly, tomorrow or the next day at the latest, we will start his rescue,\u201d said Recep \u015ealc\u0131, head of search and rescue for Turkey\u2019s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mark Dickey is over 3,000 feet down in the Morca cave, which is the third-deepest cave in the country, officials said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"inline-video inline-video--in-body\">\n<div class=\"inline-video__background\">\n<div class=\"inline-video__player\">\n<div class=\"videoPlayer styles_videoPlayer__bL8AJ styles_adNotPlaying__Q51_C styles_alignDesktopBottom__4cHaO styles_alignMobileBottom__bhgkQ\" data-testid=\"video-player\">\n<div class=\"videoSlate\"><picture class=\"\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1240px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-860x484,f_auto,q_auto:best\/mpx\/2704722219\/2023_09\/1694127981582_nn_mbr_rescue_mission_for_american_trapped_in_turkey_cave_230907_1920x1080-ll5iuw.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 758px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-1000x563,f_auto,q_auto:best\/mpx\/2704722219\/2023_09\/1694127981582_nn_mbr_rescue_mission_for_american_trapped_in_turkey_cave_230907_1920x1080-ll5iuw.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-760x428,f_auto,q_auto:best\/mpx\/2704722219\/2023_09\/1694127981582_nn_mbr_rescue_mission_for_american_trapped_in_turkey_cave_230907_1920x1080-ll5iuw.jpg\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"\">Dickey was on an international trip to map it when he suffered gastrointestinal bleeding Saturday and was unable to return on his own. He is recovering, he said in a video dated Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The cave is in the Taurus Mountains in the southern part of Turkey. It has narrow passages and several areas requiring a rappel, according to the Turkish Caving Federation, which is assisting in the effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Turkey&#8217;s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, or AFAD, plans to use a helicopter to fly him back and will have health teams waiting, \u015ealc\u0131 said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dickey had been bleeding and vomiting, but he no longer is, said Dr. Tulga \u015eener, medical coordinator at the rescue commission of Turkey\u2019s caving federation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dickey was given units of blood, and there are more units at the camp where he is, &#8220;but it seems there is no need now,&#8221; \u015eener said. There is also a doctor and paramedic with Dickey in the cave, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As part of the effort to get remove Dickey, a couple of medical encampments are inside the cave, \u015eener said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dickey said in the video dated Wednesday that he&#8217;s &#8220;doing well.\u201d He thanked the cavers who are assisting and the Turkish government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There were 116 rescuers on the site Thursday, \u015ealc\u0131 of AFAD said, and 28 were working inside the cave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Morca cave is over 4,100 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\"><em>Aziz Akyavas reported from Mersin Province and Phil Helsel from Los Angeles. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MERSIN PROVINCE, Turkey \u2014\u00a0Turkish rescuers are ready to being the process of freeing an American caver stuck over 3,000 feet underground within the next few days, an emergency management official said Thursday. \u201cWith this good news, with doctors saying you can take him out now, slowly, tomorrow or the next day at the latest, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}