Read More of the Same Day's Blog

Then there is the Utah coalmine cave-in, where NBC and ABC maintained their stakeouts. The latest development saw a remotely operated camera successfully lowered 1,800 feet below the mountainside. "The images show a dark small chamber," NBC's Jennifer London narrated, with mining gear and dripping water--but no signs of the six missing miners. Meanwhile, digging the horizontal rescue tunnel through the cave-in rubble is making slow progress--645ft done, 1,300ft to go, London calculated--and "is proving so dangerous that twelve of the rescue miners have now asked to be reassigned," ABC's Neal Karlinsky (subscription required) told us. "They are just too scared to go back down into the mine."
Andrew Tyndall 8/14/07 9:22:02 pm

© 2010 Tyndall Report