The Centralia fire is a coal mine fire that has been burning in Pennsylvania since 1962. Learn the story of the fire, what caused it, and environmental concerns. Skip to content ...

Some have even been burning for decades, including one notable coal mine fire in 1962 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, which cleared out the town due to the closure of the mine and toxic fumes being ...

Silent Hill's eerie atmosphere shares parallels with real-life ghost town Centralia, with a coal mine fire still burning underground since 1962. The town's decline led to an official evacuation ...

One cool, rainy day in May 2022, Rob Manch and Kaylee Lindenmuth decided to search for the coal mine fire themselves. They chose a Sunday, when both were off from their jobs at WFMZ-TV 69 News, a ...

Seventy-seven years ago today, coal dust exploded deep inside Centralia Coal Co.'s Mine No. 5, killing 111 men.

Edna Fund remembers what Centralia, Wa. was like in the 1960s, before the coal mine and power plant opened. She and a friend drove to the site a few miles from the city, where they were going to ...

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 the fire started, Centralia had relied on its mining industry for over a century. The key to its relative success was the abundance of anthracite coal deposits that existed below its surface.

Centralia Coal Co.'s Mine No. 5 in Wamac, Ill., a town just south of Centralia. At 3:27 p.m. on March 25, 1947, an explosion deep in the mine killed or doomed 111 of the 142 miners who were below ...