Ben Hatfield
Ben Hatfield
The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived. It was the worst mining disaster in the United States since the Jim Walter Resources Mine Disaster in Alabama on September 23, 2001, and the worst disaster in West Virginia since the 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster...
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The only confirmed survivor is Randall McCloy, who has now been rushed to a local hospital in serious condition. The 11 remaining miners in the barricade structure were determined by the medical technicians on the rescue team to have already deceased.
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The rescue teams are moving forward at an accelerated pace. They're moving faster, performing better than the robot was.
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The true heroes of this effort are the mine rescue teams who risk their own lives to save those of their fellow coal miners. At the darkest hour of this rescue effort, we prayed for 13 miracles. Despite our grief and despair at the loss of our 12 co-workers, we want to celebrate the one miracle that was delivered.
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The initial report from the rescue team to the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.
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The initial report from the rescue teams from the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.
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The initial report from the rescue teams from the command center indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.
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We are very discouraged by the results of this test.
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These miners tried desperately to secure an area of safe breathing environment.
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Progress has been slow. Families are clinging to every hope of survival.
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Everyone was talking about it in the parking lots, in the kitchen and everywhere. People that got the information were sharing it because that was the hot rumor.
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At that location they encountered a rough barricade structure. With 12 remaining miners that had been missing since the Monday explosion. Initial reports indicated multiple survivors, but that turned out to be a miscommunication.
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We don't what went wrong and caused this explosion.
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We must learn the lessons from this accident that will better protect coal miners.
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While we're very disappointed by the information we have received thus far, we remain determined to continue the search so long as there is hope, and hope remains.