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	Mine fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mine fires may begin as a result of an industrial accident, generally involving a gas explosion.
		Many recent mine fires have started from people burning trash in a landfill that was in close proximity to abandoned coal mines.
		Globally, thousands of inextinguishable mine fires are burning, especially in China and India, where poverty, lack of government regulations and runaway development combine to create an environmental disaster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mine_fire (462 words)

	Mine Fire Brigades
		Fire brigades are already established at some mines and are not regulated.
		Regulations do not require mine rescue teams to be trained or specially equipped to fight fires.
		Fire Brigade activities should generally be restricted to attacking the fire directly and to limited efforts to prevent its spread.
	www.miningorganizations.org /minefirebrigades.htm (994 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Coal mining
		This method of mining is used principally in the U.S.A. longwall mining, Here mining is conducted along the seam with the use of self-advancing hydraulic roof supports known as "chocks" or "shields".
		Mining communities are often close-knit with a strong sense of community spirit and religious faith.
		All forms of mining are likely to generate areas where coal is stacked and where the coal has significant sulfur content, such coal heaps generate highly acidic metal rich drainage when exposed to normal rainfall.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Coal_field (656 words)

	CNN.com - Neglect 'caused' Ukraine mine fire - July 8, 2002
		Preliminary investigations found that a malfunctioning conveyor at the Ukraina mine in the eastern town of Ukrainsk on Sunday caused its line to catch fire 1,155 feet (350 metres) underground, filling the shaft with smoke, officials said.
		The fire was probably caused by neglect and the miners' slow reactions, Valentyn Adamchuk told AP.
		An estimated 75 percent of the country's 209 mines are considered to be highly prone to methane blasts.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/08/ukraine (449 words)

	Loveridge mine fire
		While mine officials met with federal and state mine safety experts and union representatives to plan on ways to fight the fire, there was some confusion about the events leading up to the fire and details about it.
		The fire is in the area near the bottom of the slope entry that is used to carry coal from the mine to the surface.
		The fire began shortly before midnight yesterday in the area where the entrance, a tunnel dug from the surface to the coal seam at a sloped angle, meets the coal seam.
	www.usmra.com /loveridge.htm (1415 words)

	Tests made on mine fire - PittsburghLIVE.com
		A mine fire in Washington Township is advancing toward a property on Maiolie Road, but it has not reached a stage at which residents would have to leave their homes.
		The fire is in the W.B. Skelly Mine, known in its heyday as the Elizabeth Mine.
		Most mine fires are caused by someone burning trash in an area where coal is close to the surface.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/westmoreland/s_171031.html (682 words)

	Pennsylvania Highways: Centralia Mine Fire
		In early 1962, a decision was made to utilize a strip mine near the Odd Fellows Cemetery to become the borough's new landfill as the old one was reaching capacity.
		Mine subsidence was just one of the dangers facing the residents, along with health and respiratory problems incurred due to the noxious gases emanating from the ground.
		In early 1994, due to the movement of the fire, a portion of then PA 54/PA 61 had to be closed south of Centralia because of buckling of the pavement.
	www.pahighways.com /features/centralia.html (1273 words)

	Underground Coal Mine Non-Injury Mine Fire Accident Report: September 16, 2002 - #3 Mine - Fairfax Mining Co., Inc. - ...
		The mine is accessed by 5 drift openings from a box-cut into the Pittsburgh coal seam, which averages 55 inches in thickness.
		The mine evacuation was further complicated by the loss of two-way communication to the working sections when fire melted insulation on the mine phone cable, which was hung in the belt entry near the #2-3NW Belt drive.
		On September 16, 2002, a fire occurred at the drive unit for the #2-3NW underground belt conveyor because it was being operated without the protection of the provided slippage and sequence switches.
	www.msha.gov /fatals/2002/fairfax/nftl02fairfax.htm (8169 words)

	Laurel Run
		As the fire continued to burn, the earth's surface began to de-stabilize due to the rock-hard coal slowly turning to ash from the combustion.
		Personnel from the U.S. Bureau of Mines brought in testing equipment and discovered there were highly elevated levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the area and in the homes.
		The rest of the fire's perimeter was protected by a wall of incombustible material made of clay and sand that was injected into a series of bore holes.
	www.undergroundminers.com /laurelrun.html (1115 words)

	INFO-MINE / Enviromine - The Internet's Premier Mining Information Site
		The Centralia mine fire was not much different from many other anthracite mine fires which have been controlled and forgotten.
		The Centralia fire was caught in administrative changeover at the federal Bureau of Mines in 1979 which altered normal procedures.
		Instead, the fire propagated west along the south outcrop (refer to Figure 1 below) and destroyed a section of Route 61 and severely affected the village of Byrnsdale.
	technology.infomine.com /enviromine/case_hist/centralia/fire.html (456 words)

	Sunshine Mine Fire
		This fire precipitated the death of 91 underground employees by smoke inhalation and/or carbon monoxide poisoning.
		The men hoisted from the lower levels of the mine were directed by Gene Johnson on the 3100 level to travel to the Jewell Shaft via that level to be hoisted to the surface.
		The general opinion is that the fire originated in the 09 vein somewhere between the 3400 and the 3550 levels, presumably near the 09 crosscut on the 3400 level.
	www.usmra.com /saxsewell/sunshine.htm (4028 words)

	Jet engine exhaust is the new weapon in mine fire suppression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In December 1974, for the first time in the German coal mining industry, liquid nitrogen was gasified at the surface and fed to a mine fire underground.
		The fire started when garbage in a culm bank caught fire in 1961 and it's been burning ever since, causing extensive damage to the town of Centralia, which is now largely abandoned with its inhabitants relocated at government expense.
		Mine fires are able to burn for decades because, once established, the fire itself releases gases such as methane and eventually hydrogen that make it nearly self-sustaining, even if most of the available oxygen in the mine is used up.
	firechief.com /technology/firefighting_jet_engine_exhaust/index.html (648 words)

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		There is a possible mine fire burning in Archabald, PA near the Valley View High School.
		A fire has just been discovered burning in a culm bank near Wayne Street in Carbondale, PA. OSM people are on scene and a trench is being dug by heavy equipment around the fire.
		The fire may have spread to underground coal seams and evidence of it may not be visible.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/6444/pafires.htm (657 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Wilberg Mine fire, which claimed the lives of twenty-seven miners on 19 December 1984, was the most deadly coal-mine fire in Utah history and the worst U.
		In the Spring of 1987, MSHA ruled that the Wilberg fire was caused by a faulty air compressor, allowed to run unattended in a non-fireproofed area.
		The GAO review, released in November 1987, cited MSHA for allowing the Wilberg Mine to operate with an outdated firefighting and evacuation plan, to operate with no fire suppression devices, and to run a compressor known to be faulty.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/w/WILBERGMINE.html (649 words)

	Boyce Park's mine fire necessitates drastic action
		The fire is burning in the Pittsburgh Coal Seam in a long-abandoned section of the Plum Creek Mine.
		Unless a mine fire hits a natural barrier like a groundwater aquifer, it can burn and spread for decades until it runs out of coal or oxygen.
		Generally speaking, if a coal-mine fire is burning in a rural and unpopulated area, the state won't bother trying to put it out.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/20011125boycereg2p2.asp (1471 words)

	CNN.com - Rescuers find no trace of 2 missing miners - Jan 21, 2006
		Other teams entering the mine from two entrances were turned back by heavy smoke from a fire that erupted inside Aracoma Coal Co.'s Alma Mine No. 1 on Thursday.
		A state mining official said rescuers have made significant headway in extinguishing the blaze and reducing the levels of poisonous carbon monoxide.
		Aracoma is a longwall mine, among the more technologically advanced mine types, in which most coal extraction is automated, she said.
	www.cnn.com /rssclick/2006/US/01/20/mine.fire/?section=cnn_latest (748 words)

	Centralia Pennsylvania Photography - Underground Mine Fires burning since 1962 in Centralia PA.
		The story began sometime in 1962 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, which connected to a coal vein running near the surface.
		The fire was reported and thought to be extinguished but it apparently wasn't.
		For the next two decades, workers battled the fire, flushing the mines with water, excavating the burning material, backfilling, drilling again and again in an attempt to put the fire out or at least contain it.
	www.offroaders.com /album/centralia/centralia.htm (770 words)

	Disaster News Network: Ukraine mine fire kills 3
		Mine disasters are unfortunately commonplace in Ukraine, with some 250 miners dying last year, and 3,700 since 1991.
		Monday's fire was in the Dzerzhinskyhi mine in the Donetsk region.
		Ukraine's high number of mine disasters is attributed to deep mines, high methane concentrations, lax safety standards, and poorly maintained equipment.
	www.disasternews.net /news/news.php?articleid=1739 (84 words)

	The Centralia Mine Fire
		What we today call the Centralia mine fire is a direct legacy of the environmental devastation of that era and the failure of either government or private industry to face up to the damage that had been done and the risks that remained.
		But this year it went horribly wrong and the fire found its way through a hole in the pit into the vast, fl labyrinth of abandoned coal mines that lay beneath Centralia.
		In 1979, after one particularly ill-conceived engineering project, the fire broke through an underground barrier installed in earlier years and moved under the town itself, sending dangerous gases into one home after another and causing the ground itself to collapse.
	www.centraliaminefire.com (483 words)

	Fires and Explosions
		fire and ensuing stampede in main tent of Ringling Brothers Circus killed 168 and injured 487.
		fire in upper stories of bank building killed 189 people, many of whom leaped to their deaths.
		China's mining industry is one of the deadliest; it is estimated that more than 5,000 mining-related deaths occurred in 2001.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0001447.html (827 words)

	The Centralia Mine Fire
		In May 1962, a fire started in a garbage dump in an abandoned stripping pit near the town.
		Even then, there would be times where the road we traveled on was closed in a section, due to a subsidence caused by the mine fire (coal burns and reduces to ash.
		Some left without a fight, some left in fear (of both the fire and the government, in my opinion) and some refused to leave.
	www.shulersnet.com /coalcracker/fire.htm (509 words)

	Burning Beneath the Surface
		Typically invisible from the surface, mine fires are tricky as they travel through tunnels carved in coal seams decades ago.
		In southwestern Pennsylvania, Allegheny County has five underground mine fires that the DEP is monitoring or working to extinguish.
		In 1984, the federal agency spent $2.4 million to excavate seven acres of land and extinguish part of the fire, and to install an underground clay barrier between the remaining fire and the community's houses.
	www.offroaders.com /album/centralia/articles/burning.htm (1845 words)

	State DEP to snuff out stubborn mine fire in Fayette County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A 58-acre underground mine fire burning for 31 years near the village of Youngstown, on the flank of Chestnut Ridge in Fayette County, has defied emergency efforts to contain it.
		The fire, located northeast of Uniontown near Route 119, is believed to have started by burning trash in 1974 and over the last three decades has been moving north and south between a flooded underground mine pool on the west and an outcrop of the Pittsburgh coal seam on Chestnut Ridge to the east.
		It is one of 39 underground mine fires burning in Pennsylvania and 112 in the United States.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05153/514379.stm (613 words)

	CBC New Brunswick - N.B. miner escapes potash mine fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Beresford native Luc Morrison, who was trapped for a day in a Saskatchewan potash mine while a fire burned, says he has no qualms about returning to work on Friday.
		At first, he thought it was a power bump, but as the minutes ticked away in the gloom of the mine it became clear it was something more serious.
		Word quickly spread that there was a fire in the mine.
	www.cbc.ca /nb/story/nb_nbminer20060130.html (396 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Dozens dead in China mine fire
		A fire at an iron ore mine in northern China has killed 57 workers while three more are still missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
		Chinese mines have a poor safety record and are among the most dangerous in the world.
		One early theory is that an electric cable caught fire in one of the mines.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4029429.stm (216 words)

	Mine Fire, Centralia, Pennsylvania
		The fire crawled, insidiously, along coal-rich deposits far from the miner's pick, venting hot and poisonous gases up into town, through the basements of homes and businesses.
		With dawning horror (and chronic carbon monoxide headaches), residents came to realize that the fire was not going to be extinguished, or ever burn itself out -- at least not until all the interconnected coal veins in eastern Pennsylvania were spent in some epic, meatless barbecue.
		The fire continues and has moved up into the cemetery, smoke visible wafting up from around the gravestones.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/PACENmine.html (628 words)

	AM Archive - Uranium mine fire
		The fire has now been extinguished, and there are no reports of injury.
		But the company admits that the fire in a kerosene pond was relatively close to radioactive material.
		But the fire was contained to an area in the plant.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s75323.htm (593 words)

	cbs5.com - Rescuers Search Deep For 2 Missing Miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		More than a day after the fire broke out, crews planned to drill 200 feet into a section of the mine and try to contact the men by pounding on the steel drill bit.
		Air samples from a hole near the fire showed elevated levels of carbon monoxide, although not as severe as the levels at the Sago Mine.
		The mine had a better-than-average accident rate between 2001 and 2004, but last year 16 workers and one contractor were injured.
	cbs5.com /topstories/topstories_story_020060734.html (1001 words)

	DEPs mine fire bids under scrutiny
		The job did not stop the fire from burning in the mine beneath the Youngstown section of North Union.
		The underground mine fire began in the 1970s and has been burning off and on since then, despite two previous efforts to extinguish it in the past 15 years.
		One of the reasons Duquesne Light was selected for the latest battle with the Youngstown mine fire is because in previous instances of underground fires several contractors worked to extinguish a fire and had a tendency to blame each other when the work failed, Calder said.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/19990726minefire2.asp (562 words)

	USATODAY.com - Explosion kills 31 at Ukrainian mine; fire hinders rescuers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ukraine's mines are considered to be among the world's deadliest because of high concentrations of methane gas, frequent violations of safety rules and outdated equipment.
		The Krasnolimanskaya mine is considered one of the most perilous because of frequent methane leaks.
		In July 2002, 33 miners died in a fire, and a year earlier 55 miners were killed in a gas explosion.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-07-20-mine-blast_x.htm (627 words)

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