A Year After Sago Deaths, Anguish Remains for Many

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TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. -- Fire boss Ron Grall tries not to dwell on death during those nights when he's walking alone in the dark, checking sections of track in the Sago Mine.

"It's kind of eerie in there. I try not to really think about it. If you do, you never want to go back in," he said.

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A Year After Sago Deaths, Anguish Remains for Many

Want to or not, every day Grall pulls on boots and straps on a tool belt and goes underground into the coal mine that swallowed a dozen of his friends and left another man barely breathing a year ago today.

Grall, 63, escaped the thundering methane gas explosion that sent his 16-man crew running for daylight as it choked 13 of their comrades in thick, black smoke and debris.

With 40...

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