May 27, 1962: Centralia fire company members start a fire to clean up the town dump before Memorial Day. The fire spreads to an old strip mining pit under the landfill and eventually spreads ...

BURNING HELL Inside Centralia, the American ghost town which has been on fire for 55 YEARS and is now covered in burning sinkholes and mobbed by gun-toting gangs ...

CENTRALIA -- The pavement and graffiti are still there, ... The underground fire started when fire company members, on May 27, 1962, started a fire to clean up the town dump before Memorial Day.

CENTRALIA — Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) – Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every ...

The town’s bell, crafted in 1869 when Centralia was 3 years old, commands a position of honor at a monument to those who fought in every war […] Skip to content. All Sections.

I always liked Centralia from the time I was old enough to understand what it was," said Mary Chapman, 72, who left in 1986 but returns once a month to the social club at the Centralia fire company.

The event, which starts at 10 a.m., will have volunteers from EPCAMR plant 250 apple trees in the now deserted areas of Centralia. They will meet at Centralia Fire Co., 600 Locust Ave, Centralia.

The remaining residents of Centralia, the smoky Columbia County coal town plagued by underground mine fires since 1962, have won the right to stay in their homes the rest of their lives.

The fire was reported around 2 p.m. at 304 John Riggins Ave. The home's two occupants were not home at the time of the fire. Nemaha Co. Emergency Manager Russel Lierz says the house is a total loss.

I always liked Centralia from the time I was old enough to understand what it was,’ said Mary Chapman, 72, who left in 1986 but returns once a month to the social club at the Centralia fire company.