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The Unstoppable Coal Fire Blazing Beneath Pennsylvania

Friday, July 31, 2009

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The Unstoppable Coal Fire Blazing Beneath Pennsylvania

In 1962, firemen in the Pennsylvanian mining town of Centralia successfully extinguished a minor blaze at a landfill dump – but little did they know a layer of coal just below the surface had ignited, creating a hidden and deadly inferno that raged undetected beneath the town for almost twenty years. This is the story of Centralia and the fire that refuses to be extinguished.

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