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A fire that broke out in a room at a Horseheads motel led to a victim hospitalized with burns, and the motel shut down Wednesday evening.

And more coal fired smoke stacks are smoke-free. the power plants beneath them cold and dark. the mines that once fed them abandoned. but for the past couple of years, miners and their families let themselves believe that a coal comeback was on the way thanks to promises like this. >> we are putting our great coal miners back to work. >> he's trying to get their votes. he isn't telling them the truth. >> he's lying to them? >> he's lying to them. >> you used to work in this mine. >> i was a face boss. >> for 52 years, art sullivan worked in and consulted on mines around the world and he bristl...

>> for 52 years, art sullivan worked in and consulted on mines around the world, and he bristles every time he hears the president claim to be the savior of coal. >> and that really disturbs me because these are really good people. these are the people that i spent my life working with. and if they have the truth, they will make the right decisions. >> reporter: if the president was honest, he would explain to those folks that mines like this are never, ever coming back to life again. not because of regulation, but competition. coal just cannot compete with cheaper, cleaner natural gas, wind a...

And industry devastated with decline. >> 70 to 100 families. >> reporter: trump mentioned the new mine as he withdrew the u.s. from the paris climate accord. his famous pittsburgh, not paris speech. >> a big opening of a brand-new mine, it's unheard of. for many, many years, it hasn't happened. they asked me if i would go. >> reporter: trump didn't go but sent video congratulations. >> as long as i'm the president of your great country, each and every day, i'm fighting for you. >> reporter: to hear the president tell it, coal is on a roll, and it is all due to him. the bureau of labor statisti...

Consults the mining industry. where is that industry today? >> that industry is maybe at a temporary point of stability. >> reporter: hardly described a boom. more like a bump, as in a bump up, and not even a trump bump. sullivan says the new mine has been in the works for some time, long before trump took office. >> the planning was done during the obama administration. the permitting was done during the obama administration. the financing was done during the obama administration. >> reporter: this is not a donald trump coal mine? >> no, it is not. it is a coal mine. we have another 70 jobs. ...