Скачать или смотреть Blast traps 13 miners, rescue operation, soundbites

(3 Jan 2006)

1. Wide shot of location with police at scene
2. Close-up of police at scene
3. Wide shot emergency official
4. Residents and family members walking with food in their hands
5. Wide shot of Sago Baptist church
6. Residents in front of church
7. Wide shot of people waiting
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Sharkie, relative of trapped miner:
"My brother-in-law, he was the mine operator in there. (Q: How did you hear about this?) My sister-in-law called me this morning at 15 or 20 after 8, said they had heard on the scanner there was an explosion at the mine. So, my wife, who is married to Marty's sister, got up and rushed and ran to their house to see what we could find out. We got here since about 8:30 this morning."
9. Set up shot of friend of trapped miner speaking to press
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Friend of trapped miner (name unavailable):
"We have a friend in there, his name is Fred Ware. He lives the next house up across the church and he is still trapped in there."
11. Various of crime scene investigation unit vans arriving
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Spears, West Virginia Homeland Security:
"Well, I just want to say that it's a sad day and it's a sad day for West Virginia because as you all know we as West Virginians all feel this pain and our prayers are really going out to the families at this time. And I know that the governor is trying to get here as quickly as he can, he wants to speak to the families, that is the first place he wants to go."
13. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin arrives
14. Wide shot governor walking away
15. Wide shot news conference
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Nicholson, general counsel for the mine's owner, International Coal Group:
"At 6:31 am this morning the power went out at the mine. Shortly thereafter at about 6:40, the surface received a call from the one left section that indicated that they had lost power and that something had happened and that they were leaving the mine. At that time our mine superintendent began heading underground to investigate. He also, as he was underground he told the dispatcher to begin the notification process. After communications with the mine superintendent from underground within a few minutes of him going underground, we began to understand that something serious had happened and immediately efforts began to contact IMSA and the state regulatory agencies in accordance with our process."
17. Cutaway of cameras

STORYLINE:

Rescuers searched for 13 trapped miners early on Tuesday after an explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia stranded the workers 260 feet (78 metres) below ground.

The condition of the miners was not immediately known.

Four colleagues tried to reach the trapped workers but were stopped by a wall of debris, and the blast knocked out the mine's communication equipment.

It was not known how much air the miners had or how big a space they were in.

The miners had air-purifying equipment but no oxygen tanks, a co-worker said.

Officials refused to estimate how long it would take to reach the miners.

The first of eight search-and-rescue teams entered the Sago Mine in Tallmansville more than 11 hours after the blast trapped the miners.

Rescue crews were kept out of the mine for most of the day while dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide, a by-product of combustion, were vented through holes drilled into the ground.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration sent a rescue robot to the mine, situated about 100 miles (161 kilometres) northeast of Charleston.







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