The Centralia fire has been burning through an abandoned deep mine in Pennsylvania’s Buck Mountain Coal Bed since May of 1962. State officials aren’t entirely sure how the blaze started ...

Centralia, the ghost town, then and now An underground mine fire in the borough of Centralia in Columbia County started burning on May 27, 1962 after firefighters set the town landfill on fire to ...

As mentioned above, it is still not clear exactly when or how the fire started. One of the more popular beliefs is that it started at the Centralia landfill, which was one of the abandoned mine ...

"The area encompassed by the Centralia Mine Fire is extremely dangerous.Walking and/or driving in the immediate area could result in serious injury or death. There are dangerous gases present ...

BUTLER TWP., Pa. — The underground mine fire in Centralia, Columbia County, has been talked about for decades. Virtually everyone in the central Pennsylvania borough had to be relocated ...

she was reminded of another famous fire: the historic Centralia mine fire, which has been burning since at least May 27, 1962 and has led to most of the town being abandoned. “This (fire ...

Researchers at Michigan State University analyzed soil microbes near a mine fire that has been burning for more than 60 years and discovered that although microbial populations recovered after the ...