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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 ...
L. TOWAMENSING TWP., Pa. - Crews were called to a fire Thursday afternoon in Carbon County. A structure at an aluminum powder plant burned. The burning platform is at AMPAL Incorporated in Lower ...
One side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is partially blocked in Cumberland County, as crews respond to a vehicle fire.
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 ...
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on last month's SEPTA train fire in Delaware County, Pennsylvania ... was alerted to a burning smell in one of the ...
He suspects the fire is burning ... with coal as they rumbled through Campbell County. The underground mine was abandoned in the late 1800s, but wasn't reclaimed. "I think the iron is still ...
Concerned over the potentially toxic runoff if fire crews turned hoses on the burning lithium batteries ... referencing the 1979 partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, the ...
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 ...
A wildfire that sparked near a Western Slope coal mine closed a state highway between Meeker and Craig, officials said Friday ...
I-76 westbound is closed between Exit 266 and Exit 247 as a tractor-trailer reportedly caught fire early Friday morning, ...
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.