SWVA Higher Education Center hosts Virginia Mine Rescue Contest | WJHL
Emily Hibbitts and Doug Counts
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ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) — The 37th Annual Virginia Governor’s Cup Mine Rescue Contest & Safety Days Training is underway in Abingdon.
Virginia Energy Director of Coal Programs Randy Moore said the contest and training help team members work together in case of an event at an underground coal mine.
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“The importance is these guys get to work together, all these teams, in case we do have any kind of event at one of our underground coal mines,” Moore said. “They all know how to work together. They come together with camaraderie. They get to share what they’re doing. They go over the technical things they might have advanced in and they all work together here.”
Teams from Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania are competing in the event.
“One team here is out of Pennsylvania and you and we’ve got a couple in West Virginia and a lot of times we’ll have teams out of Kentucky, too,” Moore said. “So, I mean, this [is] a great event for them and it makes them all better. It makes us better, too, as an agency.”
The event will run until Thursday at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon.
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