Rescuers work around the clock to pull injured boy out of a cave
Albuquerque, New Mexico-AP -- Rescuers have been working throughout the night to get an injured teen-ager out of a cave in New Mexico. They say the job could take all day.
The 14-year-old Boy Scout fell off a ledge inside the cave yesterday while hiking with his troop. The 15-foot drop may have broken the boy's leg. Rescuers have already managed to give him a splint -- but there is still a lot of difficulty ahead.
Rescuers must strap the boy to a skid and then slowly push and pull him a mile and a-half out through small spaces.
The cave is very tight -- sometimes with crawl space that's only two feet high.
A spokesman for the U-S Bureau of Land Management says the teen himself is doing fine and is actually in good spirits.
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