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I will never forget today of the
explosion and mcclure of war at the time
there was a section for me I knew I had
to get my crew out of harm's way
and once my crew was safe I had to go
back we had miners missing its sea
miners bone
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Oh
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hero
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that was hero inside by chance JC moving
up three spots from last week we're
counting down the top 40 country hits
from this week in 1976 and holding on to
the number one spot for the second week
in a row is Jake Howard with his father
son valid just like me
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my son decided to walk same path that I
walk we regularly scheduled program for
this brief announcement this just in at
approximately 11:20 a.m. there was an
explosion at the Scotia mine an oven for
Kentucky - say that 15 men are currently
unaccounted for but rescue efforts are
underway stay tuned to this station for
updates on their progress now back to
your regularly scheduled program
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bro
be able
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hey hey thank you thank you
gosh those are beautiful Reds gonna love
those thank you the hope so don't worry
say it yeah big grants birthday flowers
tomorrow we have a big love going over
to the Scotia mine Memorial yeah mom
cousin passed away in this ticket money
discussion it's a busy time of the year
you think after nearly 40 years it'd get
easier but it doesn't
yeah people still struggle to hear those
stories it was just like it was
yesterday it's hard to believe that
somebody would have the courage to go
into an underground mom that's exploded
that's just the monitor
you
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lower baby he's a little guy good man
hey we've got water yeah I'm got it
Ronnie got it ready looks good looks
good
hit me I'm over you yes with you
yes you have not missed one yet
a lot of memories area buddy yeah I'll
be resting don't be there today
yeah man all right it's good see listen
I thank you thank you but I'll see you
over there okay see you man
see right here
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hey let me hold you guys up here a
second
I don't most you guys know this week is
the anniversary the Scotia mine disaster
it's a tough week for a lot of guys he's
Dave you gotta think something like that
could happen at this mine yeah well I
mean sure something like that could
happen but you know your training I do
you know what to do alright you know
there's a lot of things in place now
that that protect us from things like
that but sure something could happen but
we know what to do if something does
happen remember our training right we'll
be all right
hey Shane ever tell you how good-looking
your sister is it made that a bear when
you marry her
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hey you know won't be here Friday
calling in sick before you're sick again
huh now Kelly got a ball game stake that
ready to plate in the state championship
Oh state sup forgot about that I'm gonna
have to call him sick himself
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hello Jeremy
hello Jeremy I'm hearing noise guys this
sounds bad I want to take Danny with me
to go help pickle I'm gonna take the
rest of you guys down to the mouth of
one right drop you off with the greaser
he can take you outside Danny don't let
me forget to grab the telephone
our escape wait map and our first aid
supplies at the mouth of the section
okay will do
hello Jeremy hello Jeremy hello outside
hello Jeremy go ahead Dave I'm taking
Danny with me we're gonna go help pickle
out I'm dropping the rest of these four
guys off with degrees they're coming
outside when they get outside have two
of them to go to the mouth of the holler
and just work security until company
security gets there the other two can be
physical check-in checkout
thanks naive and Danny are coming you're
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avoiding the legs burn so yeah we're
ready right you call us uh
yeah I thought oh gosh I'm sorry we need
to lay up man we're hello Jeremy
hello Jeremy it's generally hurt I gotta
get down to the cash get us some more
rescuers if I don't for be dead in a
couple hours
don't you leave me up here to die look
at me I'm coming back baby
what's going on Jeremy
pickles three breaks out feisty right
belt drive and he said he heard a loud
roar noise and felt something prayer
like pressure and his chest in his ears
he said gusher and knocked him down and
he saw something he didn't know the
flash or a flying maybe we've lost her
tracking communications SEOs everything
in by break fifty fifteen people in
there right now seven I'm on her way out
Dave and Danny they're on their way up
to where pickles that to see what's
going on I've already talked to bar me
I'm sure he's I've told him everything
we've got underground what we got he's
on his way here okay do you have a
printout to chills everyone's last known
location
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this don't look good
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okay Donny might as well go ahead and
set up command center in a training room
and go ahead and hook up a poem for an
underground line and actually get that
go to the fan and I looked at the fan
chart and see if it shows anything
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hey Danny palm force okay I will hey
pickle I tell you what we got
hey Mai over chicken homer on that
better learner I felt a big cushion to
come down off a to rise upper take a lot
of rock dust Bronx fines in higher not
ritual why haven't you good are you okay
yeah I'm just okay well let's get us a
check hung up here
Danny hook our phone we have curtain
there's a curtain over here
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hello Alcide hello outside hello Jamie
hey Jamie so I'm just testing the photos
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Dave what rules have a seat
we really don't know everybody good
everybody breathing alright you okay are
you okay we really don't know what
happens something really bad on two
right look I got 20 parts per million
coming up our intake and smoke can you
go check the North Lane okay a zigzag de
5 6 & 7 in the North mains from 51 to 54
break
I've got smoke and heat coming out of
all four entries of the two right
section all four doors and our overcast
we're blown open they were damaged a
little but I think we'll still be able
to use them if we need them and your
regulator doors and the returns 1 & 4
both doors were open and slightly
damaged but I think we can make them
work too and the North mains intake is
short-circuiting at cross-cut 51 and the
permanent stopping is between 4 & 5
entries at cross-cut 51 and 54 partially
blown out toward the seals
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Charlie I got our rescuers I'm gonna
have to get these off or it's to like
let me say it fire full reduction father
thank you for the blessings you give us
and send us a guardian angel that watch
over the whole time and Godspeed to the
team's coming together when bill and Sam
evaluated from the minds as well played
the small conceal
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we've got all the information you needed
in this area here it they didn't on the
map and we remembered the brakes on the
to right panel I keep wanting this panel
here on the right off of that it's up
they did also so everything should be
ready to go hook it over and make sure
we don't need anything else and if you
do just let us know okay for now that
that looks good so let's go ahead and
get started on where action plan I guess
everybody knows bar from Hampshire
Daniel from state the basic of mine
safety in fact that's been notified our
support personnel and our state - your
teams are in round Jamie a
entry district managers have been
notified other amateur personnel are in
route to help us at this time we'd be in
Chania closure order for all work
underground except for the rescue
recovery operations pending our approval
of your submitted action plan at that
time with modify the order to allow you
to do other work okay what we've got at
this point we've got a broadband got
chief electrician band he's monitor this
and he's reporting back to us they're 15
minutes right now and we do have a pair
coming into our minds we've got it
disconnected in going in by break eight
this box is energized it's it's
energizing these two pumps at break team
m11 one of them is ignorant eighth one
is in the right return we have to run
these pumps
if it don't both of these places is on
our roof out with water and their
families go into the stops over the best
we've done this with her power okay and
at this point this is what we know about
what's been reported to me from
underground from bathe
we've got 15 men we're underground when
they've been occurred nine of these men
were evacuated at this point we have six
men underground to which our own panic
for those are Charlie and Shane okay
even people are located at the mouth of
two guys trying to account for Charlie
and Shane okay Gary and I let's get this
room turned around for the briefing okay
thank you guys
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good mom you've grabbed all the things
I'm gonna go check on dad as soon as we
hear something from Ronnie would like to
know we should hear something soon from
the mines and he's gonna come up here
mom is dead
yeah we have heard from the mines I pee
now
well we've heard from the mines there is
been an event and we've the man managed
what's there and the safety groups there
and Ronnie should be giving us an update
shortly so that's what I know from right
Niels okay I'm guys want to go back
you're Chuck
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but we get started or some people
introduced to you're gonna see
throughout this situation with Jamie
Mayer James is superintendent and Donnie
Dixon he's the mine Foreman Gary steel
he's the safety manager Neil Jackson
known as Breyer with Hampshire
we got Daniel Bentley here from Kentucky
convenience of mine safety I won't try
to get through this briefing as quickly
as we can but before we start Jamie you
and Gary steel and Donnie and bar and
then go in here and Revere action
playing well well brief the team's
hopefully the time we get through you
guys have an opportunity review and they
wait and approver her action plan here's
what we got fellas of course you've
probably heard that we had some kind of
merge see the end up here on to rights
ready and we'll give you a real brief
description of the my layout what you've
got is we've got four entries out here
this is a box cut we expand it into
seven entries this is what we call the
North mains here this is one right this
is to right of course based on
information we have from pickle the belt
Foreman and Dave or a responsible person
on this shift that came off this section
and went up here and check this area you
can see on your mind maps there was
quite a bit of damage and this is this
is gonna be a major focus if you look at
our map course Lex think it's a box cut
we've got a blowing fam we have two
pumps here at this point in time we
don't have any power and by that point
our chief electrician with burn
disconnect and isolate then going high
voltage so the only pair we have is here
we do have a pump set up here which will
probably encounter some water up here at
number four number three if we don't
find the two minutes and guys Charlie
and shame before we get to that point
okay if you look up here of course you
got some other things this is north main
section we do have gas wells in the area
you see the underlays of the old mine no
moss one mine it's at least 136 feet
below our minds there's been other mines
necessary that's mind over top of this
almost one mine not any major problem
but we don't know normally our fan puts
out about 200,000 cubic feet per meaning
what that means is we run about 95 to 98
and number one and number seven that's
your returns 2 & 3 users are built
neutrals number four is you built 5 & 6
as your intakes 5 is your intake xscape
way so that's how the minds is laid out
you got seals over here seals over here
based on the information that David has
given us between him and pickle
of course pickle was down here at
crosscut 51 and when the event occurred
and he said that the Sapphire came out
of this direction for me and by the
drive knocked him down rocks rock dust
everywhere so think he couldn't see you
had to feel his way to get back through
the door here at crosscut 51 now if you
notice on your maps right quick if you
scan them you can see the extent of
damage up here what we know right now is
that these files toppings that you see
on your map they're all bone towards the
seals now those aren't 20 psi seals
right now we don't even we got a problem
up there but what we're going to start
exploring in this area the reason being
course - we had Jimmy and two guys up
here on North Main to building cribs
from this thing happened within a matter
of minutes smoke was all over them they
put on their SS ARS and drove their man
trip and now they're with David green a
responsible person now dave is has my
risk of experience he's an experienced
responsible person or RP as we call him
so he pretty much knows what he's doing
okay what what has happened here
we've lost our tracking marks and
communications in by crosscut 50 so you
can see the extent of damage and that
all points toward it coming off of to
drive what has happened Davies evacuated
all the people that he doesn't need so
what he has now he kept the foreman
which is also a certified repair man
with him they came out here sent two
people out they didn't need then Dave
and and Danny man which his requirement
came up here and now he's with pickle
the belt forming which was here when he
happened pickles meaning that number 5
intake escape waste into the
Kurt so nobody's come off this too right
so right now baseball we've got we're
looking for Charlie and Shane we still
gonna explore this area what he's got
there is
he's got nothing hyper sentox and he's
at one point one percent methane he's
got 50 parts for me in CL so as soon as
we started Peter exploring we're going
to encounter some man gasses they did he
and pickle was going travel crosses
cross cross cut to see what they had
when they got into number two on this
right side they had a fire over here
Nexus Bradish some crib blocks but
they've gotten it out what Dave is doing
he's patrolling the mouths of the four
entries here I'm too right and he's he's
monitoring that fire okay at the same
time he's making sure that nobody comes
off to dry what dave has done is well
when they were putting the fire out I'm
pairing this first crosscut Co went to
200 parts meeting Co so what he done he
went through back to across 50 that's
where he has the fresh air base
established the first exploration pile
won't you guys come up here and do what
we call around house all the way the
seals we got to verify the conditions to
see us before we go in by 2 right okay
and Paul your team will continue on to
explore across cuts one through six now
by the increase we will have your team
underground you guys are going to
support all six through six thing Chris
once you guys get these four builds
across here between crosscut 16 and 17
lat resting no less do you have your
backup team and David history me and
start building these builds down here
remember the last two builds crosscut 51
between six and seven in appear in
number four between cross cuts 52 and 53
make sure now we build hearing two in by
the silver case we don't want anything
come back down to contaminate our
secondary escape way because we may need
it once we've done that crease and you
guys have built between two and three
between cross cuts two and cross cuts 15
we're gonna ban some fresh our base up
here to cross cut 15
you'll notice from Crosscut's 13 through
17 is where we cross over top of that
whole mind the last shelter and the SES
or cache was located here the day's ship
was supposed to have moved across
Scotland when they they moved the SES
ours but they did not get the shelter
mood so that's a big plus for us with
the SES or zone section if those guys
are still up there and they can't
physically get to 1,200 feet from mouth
of section to the shelter it's not our
feet from the shelter to the faces now
normally we would only explore thousand
feet but no we got think out of a box
here just a little bit so what's gonna
happen we're going we're going to extend
our exploration to 1,200 feet so that we
can make this shelter to see if Charlie
and Shane made it to the shelter now
Chris your team won't wear what you do
is you'll build cross all four inches
between crosscut 16 and 17 and then what
we're going to do is we're going to be a
one-stop the line between number two and
number three we're going in take up
three and four now once we once we get
it ventilated then we're gonna answer
fresh our base up here to crosscut 15
okay guys our action plan has been
approved so let's get suited up and head
inside
as you all know we had an event at the
mine today and it was on the two rights
section where Shane and Charlie are
working everybody else has been safely
got now the mines and they're okay we do
have a crew that's headed back and at
the mouth of the two right section and
they've encountered some smoke and you
know we were called in our rescue teams
and they're in route to there and we're
going to safely start exploring it into
where they're at
during this after the event it did
affect our communication systems so
we're not able to talk to them on the
telephones and the tracking system so
they've been very well trained in all
the aspects and we've had several drills
on mine emergencies so they are very
well trained and they'll know what to do
there's actually a refuge shelter on the
panel that they could possibly go to
also there are several self-rescuers
that provide oxygen that they have
access to and they're very well trained
on how to use all those so hopefully we
will get the rescue team to them and
hopefully find them safely and like I
said they're very well trained and keep
that in mind and also want to thank
rather profit you know let's use a
church and jayvo and and also we've got
Rhonda and Tammy here with our human
resource department as y'all well know
and and they'll be here free any care
you need and anything that they can do
for you you know I'll come back
periodically and have several sessions
with you hopefully we'll find the final
here shortly and but I want to keep you
all informed and so we will keep
communicating back to you two weeks ago
we had three teams in that right side
return left side return we had two kids
who didn't change their last week we had
seven tents and that right side return
left side return Teen Challenge now
what's happened here this mapping is
increased when the right side return now
if you look at this overlay of the old
mine you can see here based on these
elevations and the way Travis in touch
Skype marked up you have this big deep
here most likely of course this would
Ruth with water before this warranty
runs out to the surface here so what
could have happened here also it's
another possibility is this is this
water accumulates if there is methane in
that old mine it's going to push it back
toward the top ends and if you guys
remember the Scotia exposure in Kentucky
in the double our explosion your
Virginia command thing attempt to a
crack in the mine for
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hey David see my Chris good to see you
guys
Ben rough day up here hey a little bit
yeah we put a fire out up here earlier
we run into some carbon monoxide we just
could good going part of the way your
stop so well we think we have a good
plan to get these two guys out great we
got to get him out of here alright let's
just get her stuff up we'll be ready to
go all right what you have Paul but we
made the outlier area I made up to break
6 and there was a permanent stopping
this damage we didn't see any signs
reading being that I okay so you did had
ventilation controls damage then yeah
yeah you guys ready to go
the teams now have explored about
halfway up to the panel to where Charlie
and Shane are we still not talked to
them because like I said the
communication systems are still out
we're making good progress
you know the teams working as fast as
they can and be as safe as they can
because we want to make sure the rescue
teams are safe too and but you know I
could told y'all earlier you know
they're well-trained we people went
through several of these kind of
disaster drills they know what to do you
know and they still have access to
rescuers with oxygen and so you know
just keep praying and we're making
progress we're working hard the teams
are working as fast as they can and
safely as they can to get to them and
I'm just sorry I don't have any better
news right now but but you know still
got hope and we're still still doing as
fast as we can and I assure you that
we're doing everything in our power to
do it okay so yeah buddy we're hopes of
the world get him out of there right now
be a good time to pray okay please do
let's pray together father Charlie and
Shane just trying to make a living
Lord now they're in trouble God do we
need help we have people planning and
working we have mine rescue teams Lord
that are well trained and prepared for
just such an emergency but we need your
guidance Lord would you help us bring
them out alive and well
Lord would you comfort the families and
give them encouragement that they so
desperately need though we ask these
favors and these blessings in the name
of your son named Anne hello outside
held command center I say again the live
shelter has not been deployed and
there's no signs of Charlie and Shane in
the number-four entry at crosscut number
16 in the dip there is a crack in the
mine floor 3.9% methane is coming out of
the cracks
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at the SES our cash looks like someone's
been crawling around the storage boxes
and one of the boxes is open and several
SCS arms are missing
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pirates toppings in the cross-cut at
number two a our parsley blown out
towards number one very light smoke the
team encounter endured cross cut number
two a and heard of gas detector alarming
sounds like the alarm is in by number
three entry team has handed straight up
the number three entry towards the gas
detector soon
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hello outside hello Carol hello outside
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we found the both in the number-three
entering the last up with crosscut
they're both live but pretty buying
death is a fan of their last
very order some things I need to run I
need your impeccable teachers give the
families break the news till we get
through coming back yep celebrate well
ordinarily I would the umpires got
subtle got a bit more appreciation yeah
you're on your own
see you guys
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hey everybody we got him you know they
do have to be in Treece we're going to
be working they're working on their to
mine but but they are safe and we're
going to get them out and take them to
the hospital to get checked out good and
so next a little bit be gathering a few
things and because we you know probably
want to go to the hospital because
that's where we will have
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you
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I'm Randy Moore chief division of mines
Virginia Department of mines minerals
and energy first I would like to say
that this video is dedicated to the
miners of all times that have lost their
lives while providing for their families
we also dedicate this video to the brave
and courageous mine rescue teams company
personnel and regulatory agency
personnel that continue to risk their
lives while going into the mines
following mine emergencies to rescue
fellow miners this coal mine explosion
video was developed to enhance the
capability of everyone involved in mine
emergencies to make timely and very
often difficult decisions mine
explosions usually result when methane
gas is ignited and usually extends over
large areas in the mines
explosions usually affect large numbers
of miners quality training for everyone
involved including the miners mining
company personnel mine rescue personnel
and regulatory agency officials is the
cornerstone on which to build emergency
preparedness we do everything that we
can to prevent all types of mining
accidents especially disasters including
inundations of water gas mine fire and
explosions at the same time we
constantly train just in case that we
would have such an emergency event not
enough can be said about the safety
aspects that usually calls and or
contribute to mine explosions including
mine examinations gas tests ventilation
and inadequate rock dust the responsible
person RP as we call them are designated
for each shift that miners go
underground to take charge direct and
coordinate activities during any mine
emergency event in this video the RP is
showcased as he steps up to the plate
makes the right choice leads the way
when it seemed there was no way out he
made critical decisions when an
explosion occurred underground and two
of his co-workers were in trapped unless
you've been there and have done that you
can't begin to understand the character
and mental or emotional state of mind of
a person that is willing to go into a
mine too
their life while trying to save another
life truly these brave men and women are
a special breed most people don't
understand why anyone would go into a
mines that is on fire or had an
explosion they are the ones
you