GAG units have been used in Australia , most notably in 2000 at the Blair Athol Mine , Queensland , where it extinguished a 54-year-old coal fire . In 2003 , a team from the Queensland Mine Rescue Service took a unit to West Virginia , where they successfully extinguished a 660-ft deep , two-month-old fire at Loveridge Mine , after ten days of continuous use . Queensland 's unit was also transported to New Zealand in 2010 for use after the Pike River Mine disaster
Pike River Mine disaster
Pike River Mine disaster
Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy