"'All of a sudden we heard the families in a euphoric state..."

AP reports:

Families gathered at the Sago Baptist Church began running out of the church and crying just before midnight, yelling "They're alive!" After two days of keeping vigil, they celebrated joyfully as church bells rang in jubilation.

As an ambulance drove away from the mine carrying what families believed was the first survivor, they applauded, not yet knowing there were no others.

The governor later indicated he was uncertain about the news at first. When word of survivors began circulating through the church, he hadn't heard it, he said.

"All of a sudden we heard the families in a euphoric state, and all the shouting and screaming and joyfulness, and I asked my detachments, I said, 'Do you know what's happening?' Because we were wired in and we didn't know," Manchin said.

Very sad. The hunger for good news must have been so strong. If one man could survive, would you not leap to believe they all did?

UPDATE: Sissy Willis describes what the euphoria and crash from euphoria looked like on TV in the middle of the night.