13 Quotes by Doug Conaway

It's been difficult and it did flare up. We thought we had it pretty well contained. You've got fire in an extremely enclosed, confined space, and the heat has no place to dissipate.

The mine rescue teams are having a very difficult time with visibility. There's two to three feet (less than a meter) of visibility.

I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. There's still a lot of this mine that we haven't been able to examine, and hopefully will be able to as soon as we can get that fire under control.

I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. How much smoke is there? What are the difficulties of traversing through there?