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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You're behind the times, FOX news is saying that the bodies og the miners have been found.
Just heard it on FOX at 5:00 EST (fox radio)
I was afraid of that. Prayers.
Sorry, FOX is not broadcasted or on radio in my area.
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