Published on November 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
Drilling Starts At Pike River Coal Mine – “The advice I have is that there is oxygen in the mine and there is every chance that those miners have managed to get to a pocket of that oxygen flow and therefore that they are alive,” Mr Key told Sky News this morning. Superintendent Gary Knowles [...]
Tags: 15cm, Coal Mine, Explosion Safety, Gas Samples, Greymouth, Long Hole, Mid Morning, Mine Shaft, Miners, Mr Key, Noxious Fumes, Optic Cable, Oxygen Flow, Pike River, Rescue Operations, Rescuers, S South, Sky News, Supt, Volatile Atmosphere
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Published on November 21, 2010 by Technology Slice
Trapped Australian Miner – A Facebook entry states that the 27-year-old works for Valley Longwall Drilling and it is understood he was on secondment to the New Zealand operation. The second Australian has not been identified and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has declined to confirm the names of either man, citing privacy legislation. [...]
Tags: Bligh, Britons, Coal Mine, Courier Mail, Cross Centre, Department Of Foreign Affairs, Gas Explosion, Gas Samples, Gas Tests, Greymouth, Longwall, Pike River, Privacy Legislation, Rescuers, S South, Safety Experts, Second Explosion, Secondment, Union Representative, Whittall
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Published on August 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Thousands Killed In Pakistan Floods – Floods caused by a week of heavy rain have killed more than 1,000 people in Pakistan’s northwest and rescuers battled on Sunday to distribute relief to tens of thousands of trapped people. A westerly weather system moving in from Iran and Afghanistan, combined with heavy monsoon rain, caused the [...]
Tags: Abbas, Army Spokesman, Army Troops, Athar, Damages, Devastation, Dozens, Flash Floods, Floods In The Northeast, Heavy Rain, Hussain, Information Minister, Khyber, Monsoon Rain, Northwestern Province, Pakistani Army, Rescuers, swat valley, Weather System, Worst Floods
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Published on February 17, 2010 by Technology Slice
Joseph Bohlig, 52, had just reached the summit of Mount St Helens in Washington state in the US, and wanted to mark the moment with a picture. After stripping off his jacket and backpack he handed his camera to another climber, telling him to make sure to get the scenic outline of Mount Rainierin the [...]
Tags: Army, Avalanche Beacon, Backpack, boom, Companion, High Winds, Mount St Helens, Mount Washington, Mt St Helens, Portland Oregon, Rescue Pilot, Rescuers, St Joseph, Summit, Television Station, Washington State
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Published on February 8, 2010 by Technology Slice
There were fears up to 250 may have been injured in the blast at a gas-fired power plant in Connecticut. Two people were confirmed dead last night but rescuers were continuing to comb the wreckage of the plant, which is owned by Kleen Energy Systems. At least four of the injured were in a critical [...]
Tags: Ambulances, Comb, Connecticut River, Critical Condition, earthquake, Energy Systems, Fears, Helicopters, Hospital Spokesman, Hospitals, Megawatt, Middlesex Hospital, Plant Explosion, Plume Of Smoke, power plant, Rescuers, Rubble, Sky, Witness, Wreckage
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