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 ...

SCHUYKLILL HAVEN – A presentation at Penn State Schuylkill on Wednesday took a closer look at the Centralia mine fire and how it compares with other major mine fires in the region. Harold Aurand ...

"The signs represent a very real danger.Boy nearly fell to his death in CentraliaSo far, no one has died in Centralia because of the underground mine fire, but there was a very close call on ...

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 ...