Doug Conaway
Doug Conaway
air encounter fresh quality smoke
The air quality has been pretty good. The air's fresh all the way up to here. They did encounter some smoke in this area.
fell reason
For some reason the other two fell behind.
fire fully hopefully mine obstacles soon
I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. There's still a lot of this mine that we haven't been able to examine, and hopefully will be able to as soon as we can get that fire under control.
confined difficult extremely fire heat
It's been difficult and it did flare up. We thought we had it pretty well contained. You've got fire in an extremely enclosed, confined space, and the heat has no place to dissipate.
hidden move
There is nothing hidden here. I've wanted to move on for some time.
hard
We're working as hard as we can ... to find those two miners.
found looking miners past positive
We found the two miners that we were looking for for the past 40-some hours. Unfortunately, we don't have a positive outcome.
contained
We feel that we have contained the fire.
contain couple effort extent fight fire places process seen teams trying
We're making an effort here to contain the fire. We've seen it from a couple of different places but we don't know the extent of it. The teams are in the process now of trying to fight that fire and get it under control.