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 rescue teams are moving forward at an accelerated pace. They're moving faster, performing better than the robot was.
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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 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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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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No barricades or survivors were seen, but there was also no evidence of substantial explosion damage to the installed equipment that was in view.
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The families, much like the people working in the command center, are clinging to every hope.
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No survivors were spotted. It's possible they are barricaded in another area.
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They could be in another location or they could be barricaded somewhere.
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We are very discouraged by the results of this test.
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We all continue to push forward as hard as we can so long as there is hope.
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We will push forward as quickly as we can as long as there is a shred of hope that we can get our people out safely.
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We fully recognize the criticism that the company has received about the manner that the news was communicated to the families.