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Show A2 DAILY GERALD - -r- August2l2007 Monday, Established in 1873 - A Lee Newspaper Customer Service Newsrooifl 3 Special camera! to probe caver, 801-344-25- Toll free ' 375-510- 5 FAX r wwwlieraklextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom HvA, Rwo, UT Send moil tor P.Ol Box 717, Prwo. UT 846030717 1? ASSOCIATED MESS THE V NEWS EDITORS HUNTINGTON New panel will meet Monday ", tt Despite., three weeks of drilling and 4 digging that have revealed b no signs of life from six men trapped inside a collapsed coa mine, officials said Sunday the? i search wUl continue. , Federal and mine company f officials said a seventh bore-..-- , i. I hole wouM be punched into CTandan Canyon mine and that SM, a special robotic camera Would." be lowered into a hole drffletf.' during previous efforts to fiilf the men. , The camera is similar to one used to search within the r, .wreckage of the World Traded, j Center in New York City afti v the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ' V p, attacks. It can take images fjV .'TT in thejdarkened cavern frony? A. 'I about 50 feet sway with the i; 4 help of a light, and j rv r can travel 1,000 feet fromtha, ? a muchL end of the test hole wider range than previous I cameras used in the search el i forts and has some ability to move around the rubble, j fjciabsaid. -aniirrcBooatnmAMocwedPrew Were very excited about The families are thrilled to he atia King left a lawyer for teveral of the familiei of the this, said Colin King, a lawyi rfftppped miners, hugs NeMa Erickson the wife of trapped for the miners families. ndner Dm Ericson, outside the Desert Edge Christian Chapel Hctin Murphy, director oiefore going inside for a briefing m efforts to locate the six the Center for Robot Assisted - miners trapped in the Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington Search & Rescue at the Uni-- ( . on Sunday. ' . ' ' versity of South Florida, said. her camera's ability to obtain-- ' y kitchen area of the mine, an imag in the mine was a long Murphy said the robotic shot. She said it was not clear ', area where miners are trained camera wifl lowered into either whether the camera would fit to flee in case of collapse. "We the third or fourth boreholes. .. The third hole, which broke all the way down the hole ant k havent given up hope, he said, into the mine, and that debris.'. ! adding that another nearby through Aug. 1& had 15 per-he runs will be temporar- - - cent to 16 percent oxygen and in the shaft could obscure angf ' anintact chamber, but no sign By closed for a safety check. images.' Theres mud, theres rocks,' ' Murray had previously said of the miners. Normal oxygen J. the sixth borehole, drilled more levels are about 21 percent. theres things that make it The fourth hole was drilled Unfavorable, Murphy said. p than 1,700 feet deep, would , -more than 100 feet into the Certainly if we could find ajf yfce the last before sealing the mountain after mysterious sign of the -miners, that woutyy inine. On Sunday, he said the be terrificdecision to continue efforts . 'vibrations were detected by The Crandall Canyon minenU Was made with the input of aboveground monitors for were last heard from about about 5 minutes after the drill the federal Mine Health and 3 a.m. Aug. 6, just before a broke through on the third Safety Administration, but thunderous shudder inside thfiT bother he nor another Murray hide. But when the fourth hole was completed Aug. 18, there ' mountain cracked the ribs of Corp. executive shed what on to the mine and filled passage was silence. CTews spent at Sny light appeared least four hours banging on ways with debris, cutting atffhe a change of heart. an exit route Its never --etifrv We believe the right thing the drill steel and setting oft clear if they survived the cavj1 to do is to put another hole explosives in an effort to get a ' r- - down and in. response, but without results. try to locate these Horizontal digging through , men and in discussions with Air monitors sent into that the rubble-file- d mine shaft wsf MSHA that was agreed to and area of the mine showed insufhalted after a second collapse that is what has been done, ficient oxygen to support life. kaid Rob Moore, vice president The boreholes have produced killed three rescuers and in-fH ' of Murnw Energy Corp: jured six others Aug. 16. hazy images and repeated announcement Cesar Sanchez, brother efforts to signal the miners Sundays came a day after crews pen-of trapped miner Manuel through the notes have met etrated the mine with a sixtFi Sanchez, said the project of .. with silence. seventh hole encouraged Mine Health and Safety borehole, finding a debris-fii$Administration officials say area too small for the men tdi Vthe families, who had been X outraged when told that the the instability of the mountain survive, officials said. "There could be no sign of1, ri Search might end. makes it too risky to resume life in such a condition," brings the hope back up. underground tunneling or to We needed that and were go-- - drill a hole widen enough to . coowner Bob Murray add said the seventh ing to keep going until we find send a manned rescue capsule Murray hole would be drilled into the .; these guys," he sakL intothemine. SALT LAKE CITY Gov. Ion Huntsmans tu is the scope of the work, among other issues. The 11 ajn. meeting will be centered at the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining in Salt Lake Cky hut no public comment will be accepted. Huntsman announced the commission last week in response to the crisis at the Crandall Canyon mine. The group will focus on accident prevention and response, and whether Utah should regulate mine safety, a job handled by the fed- eral government. .The commission is headed by Scott Mathe-soa former prosecutor and Democratic candidate for governor.' com-missio- Home Delivery 375-510- 3736450 CLASSffEO Dativeiy by 6 a.m. Mon-Fr-i 7 a.m.Sat-SunFar missing papers, call by 9:30 a.m. " ffS The Daily Herald (ISSN 0891-2777- , USPS 143060) is published mornSUBSCRIPTIONS , New subacripticra, mtortt; delivery or ings, Sundw through Saturday. wfc-day- s by Lae PubfccaUons, a division of bmrt information, ca437S-51Lae Enterprises, Inc., 1555 N. lhn 6 g.m. to 5:30 p.m. Freedom Blvd., Provo, Utah 84604. tuascmmoN raoMAMi Periodicals postage paid at PnDvo, Utah. Postmaster: Send address .; Da & Sunday Tlwf. Fn, $un 4 HoMayi' changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Sox 717, Prow, Utah 846030717. Plunder Onty . V. ' ? T Advertising 3., '-r J 200-wa- S. Mon-- Sund Only .Thu. 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' Murray said the move af-fects 170 miners, and that he has given them the option to work at his other mines in 11-linois and Ohia He has given the miners until noon Monday to make a decision. "If they choose this, there win be no one laid off and no' one will miss a paycheck," he ; 1 . . , said. On The Bestl WALLPAPERS . & BORDERS Benjamin j r' . I 25 r Moore w.25XOFFH IIimterDii 0FFJ1 Paints asM window fasib : . mmnt Wjfc, si M fiegaf Taint r 'WifiasivK) .. M J i- SHahCa Read the Daily I that rJitfor yes-tha- any others when jourc tc. vlas&ihcds or visit wwwhcrsidextraxom . !, m; Dull' n to find the job or career i Daily Herald has connected mote employees and employers I'lG.'en cfFective o er and over again, go with the best choice !:c your place in the world, j TWO r,h Searching fer mm ; ? W E 4 to Find the Right Ono "liVrtlii A ..! lii!coUi;o;tjcbs (3SU- T nawMaMMaaiiuiv Mixratt IkMlIMk !(Wun, Msssra AfWiiewwt, Powered By mi JKW wyndiwarexh: employee? Call 372 Ii . Seismologists describe the mountain as crumbling in upon itself, bursting support pillars as it shjfts in a phenomena known as mountain bumps. MSHA officials have not specifically said theyll close the mine, but have grown in- creasingly pessimist ic about the chances of finding the men alive or even recovering their A Paint i kt n. For People Who Insist Faux 1 ABEHOUSi Blinds f Buette? . ; . ' : . Al contents Copyitfit O 2007, . . - , MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS . Emoy County. The goal is to discuss ' r.AV 'f . com-missi- U : . ; new mine-safet- y will meet for the first time Monday by phoge. exactly three weeks after a collapse trapped six miners in & tl; THE ASSOCIATED MESS to place your ad to&.yi - DreemJoO . FABivOOO t 1 . |