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When you have an explosion in your experience of this strength, of this depth, would there not have been a methane sense or some gas sensor that should have given them if only for a second some warning? >> well, you can install what we call minewide monitoring systems and these systems can be located throughout the mine and give you continuous readouts on methane content, carbon monoxide content, et cetera. i do not know if that mine had that. i suspect it probably did not. and that the gas ratings were being done with hand-held monitors. there was obviously a fire boss or a preshift inspectio...
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