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| Description provided by Scott Waybright
The above pictures are of mine rescue training conducted at the King Coal Mine, Friday, May 19th. I know some of you have interest in the San Juan Mine Rescue Team and their training opportunities. As I was at conducting fire fighting training for the entire King Coal underground mine workforce on Thursday, Tom Bird requested my assistance with developing a fire scenario for his training with the San Juan Mine Rescue Team the following day. Tom and Wade, two of the captains had an idea to move some Omega blocks and form them into an L shaped mine entry and see if we could have the teams enter in the entry filled with smoke, advance and extinguish the fire. As you can see from the photos, Wade, Preston and other King Coal employees built a nice little mine that we named Omega Mine #2. We purposely tried to keep the exercise secret from the rest of the San Juan Team, so the experience would be surprising to them. I believe it was (-:) The fan produced a great deal of heat and there was plenty of smoke with the diesel fire. Wade's team was successful in extinguishing the fire first try; however Tom's team had to retreat as one of their fire extinguishers did not function. (Something that may happen in a real situation) They regrouped, grabbed new units and were successful in their 2nd attempt. The fire was extremely hot, visibility was zero, and I feel the training was typical of a situation a team may encounter in a mine. Thanks to all the King Coal employees who made a great effort to build the Omega mine and all the teams members who did a great job. View the pictures in the order they are listed, it may help with the description.
Scott Waybright Photos sent in by John Barton
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