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Jessica McClure
Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986) became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free her from the well casing below the ground. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 television movie ''Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure'' on ABC. As presented in it, a vital part of the rescue was the use of the then relatively new technology of waterjet cutting.
==The Rescue==
Rescuing Jessica proved to be a much more difficult ordeal than initially anticipated. Within hours of discovering the situation, the Midland Fire and Police Departments devised a plan that involved drilling an additional shaft parallel to the well and then drilling a perpendicular tunnel from that shaft toward where Jessica was wedged in the well. Enlisting the help of a variety of local (often out-of-work) oil-drillers, the Midland officials had hoped to free Jessica in a matter of minutes. However, the first drillers to arrive on the scene found their tools barely adequate in penetrating the thick rock that surrounded the well. It would take approximately six hours to complete the parallel shaft and a substantially longer period of time to dig the tunnel, attributable to the fact that the jackhammers used were developed primarily for drilling downward, as opposed to sideways. A mining engineer was eventually brought in to help supervise and coordinate the rescue effort. 45 hours after Jessica had first fallen into the well, the shaft and tunnel were finally complete.
Ron Short, a muscular roofing contractor who was born without collar bones because of cleidocranial dysostosis and so could collapse his shoulders to work in cramped corners, arrived at the site and offered to go down the shaft; they accepted his offer, but did not use it.
Ultimately, it was Midland Fire Department paramedic Robert O'Donnell who was able to inch his way down into the tunnel that drillers had created and wrest Jessica free from the confines of the well shaft, handing her off to fellow paramedic Steve Forbes, who carried her to safety.
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