Two cousins reported missing about 10 p.m. Wednesday night were rescued several hours later after they were discovered buried deeply in a snow bank.
The rescue began when a police officer who heard a report about the missing boys noticed a snow shovel near a snow bank and started digging.
After digging into the bank more than a dozen times, he hit a child’s shoe.
Others joined in, digging with shovels and hands until the boys, ages 11 and 9, were pulled out — miraculously alive and expected to fully recover.
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It had snowed more than a half foot of snow on Wednesday, and the boys were digging in a snow pile to build a fort when a snow plow dumped more snow onto the pile, trapping them.
They spent about 4 hours buried in the pile of snow but somehow managed to breathe.
"They were probably in about five feet of snow," said Newburgh police Sgt. Aaron Weaver. "But however it fell, there was, like, a dome around their heads, so there was air in there, like space for them." (Source: NewYork.cbslocal.com)
AP contributed to this report.
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