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.

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 ...

Founded in 1866 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, was known for its local coal mines. The town reached its peak population in the 1890s, with 2,800 residents, two theatres, multiple hotels, and 14 ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage ... on millions of tons of slow-burning anthracite coal in the abandoned network of mines beneath the town. At first, most Centralians ignored the ...

Centralia, Pennsylvania, is a near-ghost town, with only six homes still occupied. Beneath its surface, a coal mine fire has been burning continuously for over 60 years, releasing poisonous smoke ...

Before 1962, Centralia, Pennsylvania, was a thriving old ... It is possible the fire reached deep into the mine and ignited a vein of coal that then spread into a much larger fire.

“This (fire) was what Centralia used to look like ... that it was first discovered in 2004 by a mining company called Blaschak Coal. But the Pennsylvania DEP couldn’t answer how far-reaching ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) – Coal was a source of energy and mining ... One of those major events that caused this was the Centralia mine fires that still burn underground to this day.

TransAlta closed the coal mine in 2006, laying off about ... Why we went to Centralia, Wa. StateImpact Pennsylvania went to Centralia, Wa. to look at how it prepared itself for a coal-plant ...