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Part One: Copiapo, Chile: Above and Below August 5–22, 2010: Chapter One: "August 5–6" - Chapter Three: "The Men of Hephaistos"

- The following version was made for this Lesson Plan: Aronson, Marc. Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 2011. Reprint.

- In Chapter One: "August 5–6," readers delve into the harrowing experience of Raul Villegas, a seasoned truck driver working in the depths of a Chilean copper mine.

- Villegas, accustomed to the groans and shudders of the earth in this subterranean world, encounters an unsettling event while navigating the underground labyrinth.

- As Villegas drives his truck up a ramp, a sudden, ominous crack resonates through the tunnel, accompanied by a dense cloud of dust.

- These eerie occurrences send shivers down his spine.

- Despite his instincts telling him that something is terribly wrong, he forges ahead, passing fellow...

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