Doug Conaway Quotations

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.

We feel that we have contained the fire.

For some reason the other two fell behind.

It appears right now that the two miners were trying to make a valiant effort. They were together trying to get outside, and they encountered pretty high temperatures and high levels.

Part of the problem with the fire is we are having roof falls. The heat from the fire is deteriorating the roof.

We're working as hard as we can ... to find those two miners.

There is nothing hidden here. I've wanted to move on for some time.

We found the two miners that we were looking for for the past 40-some hours. Unfortunately, we don't have a positive outcome.

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.

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.

The mine rescue teams are having a very difficult time with visibility. There's two to three feet (less than a meter) of visibility.

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.

I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. How much smoke is there? What are the difficulties of traversing through there?