MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. - Crews on Sunday waited for a smoldering fire to die out inside a 100-story-high power plant smokestack so they could search for the body of a worker presumed dead inside.
"All indications are it is a fatality," Marshall County Sheriff John Gruzinskas said Sunday. The victim's name was being withheld until his body is found, although police spoke to his wife Saturday night.
"She has two small children and is seven months pregnant," Gruzinskas said. "We are working to get counseling for her."
The worker was one of several installing a fiberglass lining inside the concrete 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 a dramatic helicopter rescue.
"They were able to get on top of the stack and able to secure themselves on the side to stay out of the fire," Gruzinskas said.
Ground crews communicated with the men by radio while awaiting rescue by a Maryland State Police helicopter, which lowered a bucket to lift each worker out individually.
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