CENTRALIA, Pa. -- Fifty years ago today ... All these decades later, the Centralia fire still burns. It also maintains its grip on the popular imagination, drawing visitors from around the ...

the quiet town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has endured a burning problem since 1962: It's been on fire, literally, for the past 53 years. And how this fire started still remains a mystery.

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 ...

The exodus began after a massive coal fire started underground. Multiple attempts to put it out all fell through and the fire still ... of Centralia in Columbia County started burning on May ...

An underground fire that has continually been burning for decades in an American town has forced most of its inhabitants to move out. Centralia in Pennsylvania ... It is still raging away today ...

Centralia, Pennsylvania, is a near-ghost town, with only six homes still occupied. Beneath its surface, a coal mine fire has been burning continuously for over 60 years, releasing poisonous smoke ...