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04-06-10, 08:08 AM
West Virginia Mine Explosion: 25 Dead, Crews Hoping to Reach Trapped Miners
Blast Worst Mine Disaster Since '84; One Family Lost Three Men
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By JUJU CHANG, SARAH NETTER and LEE FERRAN
April 6, 2010
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Rescue workers Tuesday began to drill deep into the West Virginia (http://topics.abcnews.go.com/topic/West-Virginia) mine where a massive explosion (http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/dead-west-virginia-mine-explosion-10293598) killed at least 25, though it could take more than 12 hours to ventilate the area where four miners are believed to be trapped (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/tense-moments-mine-10294670).
<SCRIPT language=javascript src="http://a.abcnews.com/assets/js/common.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>function showPopupPlayer(id){ window.open ("http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id="+id, "popup", "width=1010,height=700,status=0,resizable=0" ); return false;}</SCRIPT><OBJECT id=NewsSFP class=inlineimg title="Big Grin" border=0 alt="" classid="clsid:D</OBJECT>
<SCRIPT language=javascript src="http://a.abcnews.com/assets/js/swfobject.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript> baseURL = 'http://a.abcnews.com/assets'; pageId = '10296399'; adPattern = 'AC'; var playerSwf = new SWFObject("http://a.abcnews.com/assets/player/sfp1.37.0/flash/SFP_Locke.swf", "NewsSFP", "332", "306", "0", "#000000"); playerSwf.addParam ("allowScriptAccess", "Always"); playerSwf.addParam ("allowFullScreen", "true"); playerSwf.addVariable ("playerConfigURL", "/video/sfp/videoPlayerConfig?config=embed~storypage~1~plname~ AC"); playerSwf.addVariable ("playlistpath", "/video/sfp/mrss?"); playerSwf.addVariable ("showId", 10296399); playerSwf.addVariable ("clipId", "null"); playerSwf.addVariable ("autoStartFirstClip", "false"); //playerSwf.addVariable ("adPattern", "AC"); playerSwf.write("mediaplayer2"); </SCRIPT>The mine owners were fined millions last year for toxic levels of gas.
Nearly everyone in the community surrounding Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine near Whitesville, W. Va., has been affected by the worst mine disaster (http://www.leatherneck.com/US/wireStory?id=10292925) in more than 25 years.
"I've never seen anything like it," West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin (http://topics.abcnews.go.com/topic/Joe-Manchin) told "Good Morning America" today.
"From the beginning to the end the best word I can think of to describe the evening was agony," the Red Cross' Sheri McGraw said this morning.
She described how families clung to each other in a holding area, eyes trained on the door waiting for word from mine officials.
Eleven deceased miners have been identified so far, leaving 18 families to wonder whether their loved ones are among the 14 still unidentified or whether they can hold out hope that they are among the four possibly still alive deep in the mine.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/West-virginia-mine-explosion-drilling-starts-find-trapped-miners/story?id=10296284
Blast Worst Mine Disaster Since '84; One Family Lost Three Men
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By JUJU CHANG, SARAH NETTER and LEE FERRAN
April 6, 2010
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Rescue workers Tuesday began to drill deep into the West Virginia (http://topics.abcnews.go.com/topic/West-Virginia) mine where a massive explosion (http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/dead-west-virginia-mine-explosion-10293598) killed at least 25, though it could take more than 12 hours to ventilate the area where four miners are believed to be trapped (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/tense-moments-mine-10294670).
<SCRIPT language=javascript src="http://a.abcnews.com/assets/js/common.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>function showPopupPlayer(id){ window.open ("http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id="+id, "popup", "width=1010,height=700,status=0,resizable=0" ); return false;}</SCRIPT><OBJECT id=NewsSFP class=inlineimg title="Big Grin" border=0 alt="" classid="clsid:D</OBJECT>
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Nearly everyone in the community surrounding Massey Energy Co.'s Upper Big Branch mine near Whitesville, W. Va., has been affected by the worst mine disaster (http://www.leatherneck.com/US/wireStory?id=10292925) in more than 25 years.
"I've never seen anything like it," West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin (http://topics.abcnews.go.com/topic/Joe-Manchin) told "Good Morning America" today.
"From the beginning to the end the best word I can think of to describe the evening was agony," the Red Cross' Sheri McGraw said this morning.
She described how families clung to each other in a holding area, eyes trained on the door waiting for word from mine officials.
Eleven deceased miners have been identified so far, leaving 18 families to wonder whether their loved ones are among the 14 still unidentified or whether they can hold out hope that they are among the four possibly still alive deep in the mine.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/West-virginia-mine-explosion-drilling-starts-find-trapped-miners/story?id=10296284