{"id":41645,"date":"2025-01-22T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/16-suffer-burns-injuries-in-methane-fire-at-a-coal-mine-in-poland\/22\/01\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:08:20","slug":"16-suffer-burns-injuries-in-methane-fire-at-a-coal-mine-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/16-suffer-burns-injuries-in-methane-fire-at-a-coal-mine-in-poland\/22\/01\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"16 suffer burns, injuries in methane fire at a coal mine in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Doctors said Wednesday that 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at a coal mine in southern Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lukasz Pach, head of the regional ambulance service in Katowice, said 14 of those injured have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The coal mining company that operates the Knurow-Szczyglowice colliery, the JSW, said the fire started some 850 meters (2,800 feet) below ground level. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fourty-four miners have been evacuated from the area, according to Adam Rozmus, a deputy head at the JSW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Methane in Poland\u2019s coal mines has led to occasional fires and deadly explosions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/16-suffer-burns-injuries-methane-125307718.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) &mdash; Doctors said Wednesday that 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/16-suffer-burns-injuries-in-methane-fire-at-a-coal-mine-in-poland\/22\/01\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}