Too close to home
Brian May 20th, 2006
Another mine explosion.
From the AP:
An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners while one other miner was able to get out alive, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said Saturday.
The blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County occurred between midnight and 1 a.m. EDT while a maintenance shift was on duty, said Amy Louviere, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
“We don’t know the details of the cause,” Fletcher told The Associated Press.
This is too close to home for me, also. I was born in Harlan County and still have relatives living there. (None of them worked in the mine that had the blast.)
My heart goes out to the families of the miners.