CNN: A fire has broken out in a mine in V.W. No link now.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Two are trapped It's two miles away from the other mining tragedy.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. OH NO!

Damn, damn, damn. This is too much. Those poor people.:cry:

[Sydnie]

3. Please let us know what is happening if they give more news

Thanks.

I would hate to see the moutain top removal start from underground. Those people have been through enough already.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I heard that

:cry:

[BattyDem]

5. Damn!

:cry:

[cal04]

6. I hope they find them soon (link)

A fire erupted in an underground coal mine in southern West Virginia late Thursday and two workers were unaccounted for, authorities said. The fire was reported at the Aracoma Coal Co. in Mellville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston.

Lara Ramsburg, a spokeswoman for Gov. Joe Manchin, said the blaze apparently began on a conveyer belt that moves coal from the mine to the surface. She did not have any other information.

State police said they were responding to an incident at the mine but would not give any other details.
A man who answered the telephone at Aracoma Coal's Mellville office hung up. The blaze occurred less than three weeks after an explosion at the Sago Mine in Upshur County killed 12 members.

The sole survivor of that blast, Randal McCloy Jr., 26, remained hospitalized in a light coma at a hospital in Morgantown.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-minefire0119jan19,0,6058287.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia

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8. Thanks!!

[regnaD kciN]

10. Mine owners will be mine owners...

State police said they were responding to an incident at the mine but would not give any other details. A man who answered the telephone at Aracoma Coal's Mellville office hung up.

:grr:

[mom cat]

7. Oh damn. Haven't they suffered enough!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. A 360 is reporting it now!!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

11. Link to Alertnet.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19241821.htm

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Two said missing in W.Virginia mine fire-official
20 Jan 2006 04:28:43 GMT

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Two miners have been reported missing after a fire broke out at a coal mine in southern West Virginia, a state mine safety official said on Thursday.

Terry Farley of the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health Safety said his office had been told the two were missing at the mine in Mellville, but was unable to provide more information.

An emergency services worker in Logan County, West Virginia, told CNN that fire and police officials and two ambulances were sent to the scene. She said the initial emergency calls indicated a conveyor belt fire but that had not been confirmed.

WOWK-TV, a CBS affiliate in Charleston, West Virginia, reported the fire broke out between 7:30 and 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Media reports said the Mellville mine was owned by Aracoma Coal Co., a subsidiary of Richmond, Virginia-Charleston-based Massey Energy Co. <MEE.N>, the fourth-largest U.S. coal company by revenue.

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12. More.

http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=8176

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13. CNN: They are going to start drilling into the mine.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. They pulled them out dead!

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/21/build/nation/30-missing-miners.inc