Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass announces the winners of the 17th Annual Pennsylvania Heritage Songwriting Contest (PHSC).

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

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it ...

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.

We bring you part 3 of our exclusive series, "Burning Coal Country ... We saw on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's map from 1983 that the Centralia mine fire was considered ...

The road sign for Centralia, a coal-mining town in the heart ... Lavelle But what future can a town irredeemably on fire have? Eventually Pennsylvania state bought Centralia.

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 ... fire reached deep into the mine and ignited a vein of coal that then spread into a much larger fire. Unfortunately, the mining tunnels spread out and ...

Founded in 1866 in Centralia, Pennsylvania ... But the controlled fire in an out-of-commission coal mining pit was not properly extinguished and flames crept through an unsealed opening ...

Researchers at Michigan State University analyzed soil microbes near a mine fire that has been burning for more than 60 years and discovered that although microbial populations recovered after the ...