Julie McClure / Michigan City News Dispatch
Two private excavation companies with heavy equipment joined the rescue effort in Michigan City, Ind.
By M. Alex Johnson and Christopher Nelson, NBC News
Rescue teams and private excavation crews dug for more than three hours Friday before rescuing an 8-year-old boy trapped under 34 feet of sand at a national park in Indiana, authorities said.
Calling the rescue "an amazing miracle," La Porte County, Ind., Deputy Coroner Mark Huffman said late Friday that the boy "has a chance" to survive.
"They were at a little over 30 feet, they found a soft spot, went another 4 feet or so and found him," Huffman told NBC station WNDU of South Bend, Ind.?"Our guys kept on digging. Some guys got out and dug by hand."?
"Imagine being on the third story of a building and everything below you is sand," he said.
Michigan City Fire Chief Ronnie Martin told NBC News the boy was ?being evacuated by helicopter to a hospital in Chicago for treatment. His identity wasn't immediately released.
Martin told the Times that the boy was located when probes found an air pocket surrounding him.
Rescue crews were called to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, on the Lake Michigan shore in Michigan City, shortly after 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), Martin said. The boy was found about 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).
Bruce Rowe, a spokesman for the National Park Service, told reporters that the boy's family saw him in the hole near Mount Baldy as it collapsed. NBC Chicago reported that the hole was?in a restoration area away from the public.
Two private excavating companies using backhoes joined local police and rescue crews, La Porte County emergency workers, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. workers and National Park Service officers in working to dig out the boy.
"I've never heard of such a thing at the park, and I've been working here since 1991," Rowe said.
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This story was originally published on Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:01 PM EDT
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