Progress has been slow. Families are clinging to every hope of survival. |
Rightly or wrongly, we made what we believed to be the best decisions ... while working under extreme stress and physical exhaustion. |
That information spread like wildfire, because it had come from the command center. |
The families, much like the people working in the command center, are clinging to every hope. |
The first quarter was difficult emotionally for us and challenging from an operational standpoint. |
The foremost concern throughout this process has been that there are so many things we don't know about what went wrong. We don't want to put any more people at risk until we know answers. |
The impact of the carbon monoxide is the greatest danger. |
The impact of the carbon monoxide is the greatest danger. Progress has been slow. |
The initial report from the rescue team to the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication. |
The initial report from the rescue teams from the command center indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication. |
The initial report from the rescue teams from the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication. |
The only confirmed survivor is Randall McCloy, who has now been rushed to a local hospital in serious condition. The 11 remaining miners in the barricade structure were determined by the medical technicians on the rescue team to have already deceased. |
The rescue teams are moving forward at an accelerated pace. They're moving faster, performing better than the robot was. |
The true heroes of this effort are the mine rescue teams who risk their own lives to save those of their fellow coal miners. At the darkest hour of this rescue effort, we prayed for 13 miracles. Despite our grief and despair at the loss of our 12 co-workers, we want to celebrate the one miracle that was delivered. |
These miners tried desperately to secure an area of safe breathing environment. |