News – Families of missing miners lash out against officials

I saw this one coming.

And I agree with the families on this one. The state officials and the mining officials involved in calling off the debris removal were just asking for this kind of trouble when they decided to abandon the rescue effort of the first six miners that were trapped in the cave in of the Crandall canyon mine in Utah. I don’t blame the families for being upset and I would also be outraged if I heard that people had given up on rescuing or recovering the bodies of the miners. I don’t know if they are still alive, but you can’t just leave the bodies down there and abandon them

Our military men fight through bombs and crossfire to rescue or recover the bodies of their friends and fellow soldiers. They know what it’s like to run/crawl/walk/dodge your way through a dangerous place just to recover someone and if those men can do it then so can the people trying to rescue/recover the six miners who were initially trapped.

The families demanded that MSHA and Murray Energy begin drilling a hole into the mine large enough to drop in a rescue capsule — a device used to haul nine miners to safety after a 2002 accident at the Quecreek Mine in southwestern Pennsylvania.

“The family feels that the rescue capsule is the safest and most effective method to rescue their loved ones,” Olsen said. “If rescue is not possible, the capsule is the only method to recover our loved ones so that they can have a proper burial.”

Olsen said company officials have told the families that would involve “unnecessary risks” to rescuers, but he said rescue teams were ready to use that method if needed.

Since when did everyone in America become so danged pusstified about handling problems? I had seen on TV that some of the rescue workers had abandoned the site and left because they felt “uneasy” or “scared”. Hell, if I was 3500 or whatever underground i’d be scared too, but that doesn’t mean I can stop until the job is finished. At least if the people aren’t alive then the least we could do is recover them and give them a proper burial.

However, I don’t know if the MSHA will allow that to happen in the end. Hopefully, the familes of these minors will throw enough flak at the officials that they have to do something, but right now it doesn’t look like things are going in their favor.