At 7:10 pm an ignition occurred at the face of #3 entry between 76 and 77 crosscuts in the D1 section where the 14ED25 miner was cutting coal. An orange flame approx. 2 feet long appeared in the upper right hand corner of the face where there was some sand stone above the binder. The flame was extinguished using the wash down hoses on both sides of the miner afet approx.7 seconds.