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"Burning Coal Country." The first two parts were about an active mine fire burning underground in Schuylkill County and the response from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
MERCER - Mercer Area School District has a time-proven way to keep students warm in the winter - it has been burning coal ...
CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before ... and a lack of funding allowed the fire to grow into a monster - feeding on millions of tons of slow-burning anthracite coal in the abandoned network of mines ...
HAZLETON, Pa. - The Luzerne County Coroner says 39-year ... According to her obituary, Lockwood was a firefighter and trustee for the Harwood Fire Company. Fire officials say Lockwood was ...
Pennsylvania’s eternal flame is bigger than a flickering fire under a waterfall ... but 53 years later, it’s still burning. Britannica says coal burns when the carbon inside it combines ...
MERCER — Mercer Area School District has a time-proven way to keep students warm in the winter — it has been burning coal since ... the district has two coal-fire boilers, one in the ...
Many families in Pennsylvania have a similar story: a father, grandfather or great-grandfather who worked in the coal mines.
Dispatch said the closure is expected to remain in place for an extended time until the power company responds and repairs ...
PAWSibilities Animal Rescue is healing after a devastating fire claimed the lives of numerous cats and the search continues ...
coal that’s on fire can be loaded out or moved in a silo. The barn didn’t have those same capabilities. “We couldn’t pull the rest of the coal away from the burning coal,” Eischeid said.
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A coal refuse fire in an abandoned mining area in Chesterfield reignited on Monday. A cloud of smoke could be seen rising from an old coal pile in the ...