Gene Kitts Quotations

We're just praying that they've had the opportunity to put their training to use.

We're hoping that the carbon monoxide was just a byproduct of the explosion.

The primary purpose of the drilling from the surface is to determine the atmosphere at the (accident site) just to give rescue teams more knowledge what to expect.

It came to the surface that 12 were alive.

We're working to improve the safety program across the board. We're instilling the notion that this is a continuous improvement process.

We don't know where the miscommunication occurred, and we don't think it's particularly important.

We don't want to be energizing anything if it's in an atmosphere with combustible gases.

We will expect to be there quick enough so that food, water, those sorts of issues probably will not come into play.

It was the readings they were taking of the atmosphere indicating they were not equipped to go further.

These miners are experienced, they are well-trained. We are just praying they had an opportunity to put their training to use.

That's why this is such a slow process.

This is not a rookie crew underground. So we're just trusting that their training and their mining instincts have kicked in immediately.

It's a very slow, very careful, methodical process.

That just adds to the mystery of what happened when the production crew went underground.

That just adds to the mystery of how this happened. It was inspected as required by the regulations, and it was clean, and an hour later, there was this explosion.