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 ...

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

The Pennsylvania town has just six residents ... so I had to come and have a look for myself.” The centre of Centralia before the fire started. It used to be a vibrant town with a busy high ...

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. (WHTM) – Centralia was founded in 1866 ... So the Centralia Council decided the best way to clean the garbage was to set it on fire. This caused an underground fire to start ...

In 1962, Centralia ... landfill on fire to clean up for the Memorial Day holiday. Now, Centralia, its legacy and its residents are the subject of a new documentary: "Centralia: Pennsylvania's ...

A fading memory of town is all that remains of Centralia, Pennsylvania ... They wanted it done before Memorial Day ceremonies, as Odd Fellows Cemetery was only a hop and a skip away from the ...

Before 1962, Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a thriving old mining town. However, that changed when a fire broke out in May that year. Although it is not completely clear what started it, the results ...

They seemed to coil out of the ground from a grassy patch near a tree by his house in the rural town of Centralia ... it could take up to 200 years before the fire goes out.