{"id":2170,"date":"2026-11-04T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:23:35","slug":"beaconsfield-mine-disaster-survivor-todd-russell-to-spend-final-days-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/beaconsfield-mine-disaster-survivor-todd-russell-to-spend-final-days-with-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaconsfield Mine Disaster Survivor Todd Russell to Spend Final Days with Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd Russell, one of the two miners who survived the 2006 Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania, is preparing to spend his remaining days with his family following a prolonged health battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to 7NEWS, the 54-year-old is leaving hospital after eight and a half months of treatment, with doctors indicating that no further treatment options are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russell and fellow miner Brant Webb made international headlines in 2006 after surviving 14 days trapped underground following a rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine. Their colleague, Larry Knight, died in the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their rescue on May 9, 2006, became one of Australia&#8217;s most widely remembered mining rescue operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russell&#8217;s latest health battle has renewed public attention on the survivor and the lasting impact of the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Russell, one of the two miners who survived the 2006 Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania, is preparing to spend his remaining days with his family following a prolonged health battle. According to 7NEWS, the 54-year-old is leaving hospital after eight and a half months of treatment, with doctors indicating that no further treatment options &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,52,36,29],"tags":[191,214,923,922],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-daily-reports","category-health","category-world","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-tasmania","tag-toddrussell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}