One Man Missing in Power Plant Fire

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Moundsville, West Virginia (US):
Officials were letting a fire in a 100-story high smokestack burn itself out before resuming the search for the body of a worker presumed dead inside.
The fire broke out at American Electric Power's Kammer-Mitchell coal-fired power plant south of Moundsville, about 68 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
The worker was installing a fiberglass lining inside the power plant's stack when the fire broke out Saturday. Three other workers at the top of the stack were trapped for two hours above the flames before their dramatic helicopter rescue.
Ground crews communicated with the men by radio, he said, and the three remained calm while awaiting rescue. They were all in stable condition at area hospitals early Sunday. Gruzinskas said he was amazed by the rescue with a Maryland State Police helicopter, which lowered a bucket to lift each worker out individually.
The missing man was part of a second crew working inside the stack, Gruzinskas said.
Mar 05, 2006