MINER HURT IN FLASH FIRE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, January 3, 1993                   TAG: 9301030125
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO   
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHLANDS                                LENGTH: Short
MINER HURT IN FLASH FIRE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
A miner injured in a flash fire last week in a Virginia-West Virginia mine has been discharged from a hospital, officials said Saturday.
Joe Curry of Berwind, W.Va., was discharged Friday from Humana-Clinch Valley Hospital in Richlands. He underwent treatment for smoke inhalation and facial burns sustained in the Tuesday fire, said a nursing supervisor who declined to identify herself.
Four others remain in Virginia hospitals after the fire at the Consolidation Coal Co. Amonate No. 1 mine on the Virginia-West Virginia border near Amonate, Va.
Curry speculated in a Thursday interview that the fire occurred when explosive methane gas was released in a roof fall.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB