One person was killed and 12 people were rescued after being trapped for about six hours at the bottom of a former Colorado gold mine when an elevator malfunctioned at the tourist site, authorities said.

The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near the town of Cripple Creek when it had a mechanical problem around 500 feet (152 meters) beneath the surface, creating a “severe danger for the participants,” Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said.

The 12 adults who were trapped about 1,000 feet (305 meters) below ground had access to water and used radios to communicate with authorities, who told them there was an elevator issue, Mikesell said.

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    I used to love AvEs videos before he got on the antivax conspiracy theorist train. Is he still doing that?

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      Haven’t seen a video like that. I don’t watch a lot because I’m not interested in all the tooling and stuff. Sad to hear such a sensible guy spewing that shit.

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        Ah, yeah, I used to watch him for the tool videos and then when covid happened he got super into antivax conspiracy stuff and was a proud vocal supporter of the convoy antivax protest. That’s when I finally unsubbed.

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        He did a three minute video praising the Truckers Protest a while back and I stopped watching that. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doubled down, but that “protest” was always a scam and I lost a lot of respect for him for not identifying it as such.