“Burning Coal Country” blends reporting ... There are over a dozen active mine fires throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Manch says he recognizes that the one he highlighted in his ...

Elements like ammonium and nitrate were elevated at the active fire vent ... 38 of which are in Pennsylvania. In Jhaia, India, a series of coal mine fires have been burning since 1916, consuming ...

A once wealthy bustling Pennsylvania ... and 14 active coal mines. By the 1960s there were still over 1,000 residents who called Centralia home - that was until a fire ravaged the entire town.

Pa. — The underground mine fire in Centralia ... We began our investigation at the site of the coal region's most famous mine fire, Centralia. Once home to more than 1,000 people, it now ...

"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.

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.

Smoke has been coming from the ground near a home in Fairchance, Fayette County, for days, according to community members. The situation has left many people living nearby concerned and wondering ...

That Pennsylvania coal provided ... “These coal-patch towns have loads of mines. Every town has a mine underneath it,” said Crabtree fire Chief Bill Watkins, who responded to the sinkhole ...

Twenty years ago the garden was a brownfield and 70 years ago it was an active coal ... Western Pennsylvania isn’t the only region tending a hangover from its coal-mining past.