50 years on, still ablaze underground

By Michael Rubinkam / The Bulletin
May 27, 2012

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 — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.

All these decades later, the Centralia fire still....

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