Authorities Reveal Listvyazhnaya Rescue Plan
Governor Tsivilev: rescue work at the Listvyazhnaya mine will resume in three days mine “Listvyazhnaya”. This is reported by TASS. According to him, three branches of the paramilitary mine rescue unit arrived at the scene of the emergency. Now they are preparing to go into the mine to insulate the mine workings. After that, the mine will begin to fill up with methane, and after about three days its level will cease to be explosive (about 20 percent). Only then will a further decision be made on the further work of the rescuers. The commander of the Kemerovo Militarized Mine Rescue Detachment Yuri She, in turn, added that in parallel with the isolation work in the mine workings, rescuers will extinguish possible fires. He clarified that in the late afternoon they would drill a well to the alleged epicenter of the explosion and pump in an inert foam there, which,