Refuse Chamber News Today

Instead of going up across here to the long-wall face, theyre basically going to take the angle up, and theyre going to make sure that the smoke and the c.o. that we saw in this area is not coming from this area. so, theyre going to make a run by this area. if the concentrations of c.o. showed that its normal and theres no smoke, we know that weve flushed this area out with nitrogen, and we should not have any smoke or fire, and we will have the ability to get up to that refuse chamber and evalu...

30 minutes past the hour. time to check the top stories. the search for four missing miners in west virginia has been halted again. two eight-man search teams made it down to the refuse chambers before they are believed to be trapped. there is a firing burning and the rescuers had to be pulled out. they are trying to bore a hole no the refuse chamber to use a camera and look inside. a qatarry diplomat was actually heading to denver to visit a jailed al qaeda inmate. were told these visits by d...

Inside that mine? >> depending on obviously on the strength of the fire, intensity, if the shelter is deployed, i dont know the precise temperature, but its obviously not as great as the temperature would be were it not deployed. we have hopes, continue to hope. were working as hard as we can. to get our mine rescue teams back in the mine. hopefully well be able to accomplish that this afternoon. i cant give you a definite temperature at which that shelter might withstand. >> if theres a fire in...

For those high concentrations of c.o. was the nitrogen that was forcing the air out of the 22 long-wall sections. thats the good news. the not-so-good news was the borehole that was put in at the refuse chamber did not hit a void. it hit a solid pillar. so, basically that hole that was drilled from the surface does no use to us at all. and we will not be able to put a camera down in it. well, we can put a camera down in it, but basically theyll be nothing to see. so, we had another meeting, and ...