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Underground Fire Slows Search For Trapped W.Va. Miners
The Associated Press ^ | January 21, 2006 | The Associated Press

Posted on 01/21/2006 2:05:58 PM PST by Westlander

MELVILLE, W.Va. -- Intense heat from an underground fire slowed rescue crews and threatened to collapse part of a mine as the search for two missing miners passed 41½ hours Saturday -- the time it had taken to find the bodies of 12 miners trapped in the Sago Mine less than three weeks earlier.

Nineteen miners had escaped after a conveyor belt caught fire inside the Alma No. 1 mine Thursday evening, but two others never made it out.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: aracomamine; fire; mine; miners; trapped
Brave souls.
1 posted on 01/21/2006 2:06:01 PM PST by Westlander
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To: Westlander

You're behind the times, FOX news is saying that the bodies og the miners have been found.


2 posted on 01/21/2006 2:07:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: cripplecreek

Just heard it on FOX at 5:00 EST (fox radio)


3 posted on 01/21/2006 2:09:12 PM PST by xcamel (Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
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To: cripplecreek

I was afraid of that. Prayers.


4 posted on 01/21/2006 2:11:07 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: cripplecreek

Sorry, FOX is not broadcasted or on radio in my area.


5 posted on 01/21/2006 2:14:32 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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