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, Pa. -- Fifty years ago today, 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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. — Standing before the wreckage ... in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.

CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage ... in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.

Centralia, Pa. – Nearly a half-century after it began, the voracious mine fire that doomed this coal town in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania continues to burn hundreds of feet ...

relatively quaint coal town of Ashland, PA, Centralia is very easy to miss if you don’t know what to look for. A tiny piece of wood painted with the word “fire” is the only signage you’ll ...

Founded in 1866 in Centralia, Pennsylvania ... But the controlled fire in an out-of-commission coal mining pit was not properly extinguished and flames crept through an unsealed opening ...

The Centralia, Pa., underground coal fire started after the municipality back-burned the town garbage dump in 1962. Although they thought that all the holes were filled with non-combustible ...

There was a time when homes lined Locust Avenue in Centralia, Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 people lived there. Today, it’s a ghost town.An underground coal fire has been burning beneath ...