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Rescue workers gather outside the entrance to an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant in which five maintenance workers were trapped in a pipe after a fire started in the facility near the small mountain community of Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. Rescue workers struggled to reach the workers, who died before they could be rescued.
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Rescue workers head toward the hydroelectric plant where five maintenance workers were trapped in a pipe after a fire started in the facility near the small mountain community of Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. The workers, who survived an initial chemical fire, were trapped 1,000 feet underground and died before emergency workers could reach them.
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Rescue workers gather to enter an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant where five maintenance workers were trapped in a pipe after a fire started in the facility near the small mountain community of Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. The worker were later found dead. Investigators were trying to determine how they died, and the county coroner's office was working to identify the workers and remove their bodies.
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Rescue workers head into an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant in which five maintenance workers were trapped and later died in a pipe after a fire started in the facility near Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. They were among a group of nine workers in the pipe when a machine used to coat the inside of the 4-foot-wide pipe with epoxy caught fire. The other four escaped.
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Rescuers head up the road from an Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant in which five maintenance workers were trapped and later died in a pipe after a fire started in the facility near Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. The underground pipe delivers water from a reservoir to turbines that generate electricity and empties into a second, smaller reservoir. The plant is located high in the Rocky Mountains.
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Tim Taylor, front, president and chief operating officer of Public Service Company of Colorado, bites his lip while Stu Nay, undersheriff of Clear Creek County, Colo., looks on during a news conference at which officials announced that five maintenance workers who were trapped in an empty water tunnel at an Xcel hydroelectric power plant were found dead near Georgetown, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.
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Rescue crews guide their vehicles out of Georgetown, Colo., after operations were halted in the search for five maintenance workers trapped inside an empty water tunnel at an Xcel Energy hydroelectric power plant after a fire started in the facility near the small mountain community of Georgetown on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007. Authorities confirmed that the five workers died in the incident.
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Xcel Energy's Cabin Creek Hydro Generation Station is pictured on Wednesday where rescue teams were working to recover the bodies of five workers who were killed Tuesday at the facility near Georgetown, Colo., on Oct. 3, 2007. The five workers trapped at least 1,500 feet underground survived an initial chemical fire, but died before emergency workers could rescue them.
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Two firefighters from the Arvada Fire Rescue Team carry air tanks to the Xcel Energy Cabin Creek Hydro Generation Station where teams were working to recover the bodies of five workers who were killed Tuesday at the facility near Georgetown, Colo., on Oct. 3, 2007.