Centralia PA, with AdventureMyths

Just another look at Centralia, PA and the underground mine fires, only through our eyes...

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[crashdaparty]

the first girl they interview is a complete idiot. The government is buying up the land so they can dig out the fire to extinguish it. this will work, but its so dangerous that they cannot do this with still a few inhabitants left in the borough. the vein runs down to ashland and the reason the government is concerned is because the fire in time could spread to the neighboring town. We do know how the fire was started contrary to what she says.

[AdventureMyths]

@crashdaparty Well she was the only one around at the time willing to talk to us that lived in the area....Thanks for the update.

[scottyweir]

what ws the point of measuring the crack?

[AdventureMyths]

So anyone that goes there can measure it themselves to see if the crack has spread.

[SteamingObe]

You guys got balls to stand in that crack in the road.

[AdventureMyths]

Not anymore, they nearly burned off! lol

[scrummer69]

To every idiot,

The coal is not and never was on fire. It is the peat and everything else that would turn into coal. Coal requires too much oxygen to burn. I ask people that visit the vents why they think the coal is burning and I ask them one question if you thought the coal was burning why would they be deep mining the south side of rt. 61 and surface mining the north side from Centralia to the Mount Carmel. And my pop was one of the first ones to try to put out the garbage/coal fire.

Rod

[Cloberzz39]

should explode a low yield maybe 1 megaton nuclear bomb under ground to snuff out the coal fires

[TheWarLordOfHell]

@SuPaFlY171989 naw probally make it burn hotter it would add O2.

[irock174]

I was just there a couple days ago. It seems that the smoke is much more apparent during the winter, because we could barely see the gases coming out of rt 61. I almost don't want them to extinguish the fire because I find this place to be so fascinating the way it is now.

[DieSnickerz]

wer auch wegen galileo big picture schaut daumen hoch :D

[GouramJaryi]

really cool little movie. nice.



[SuPaFlY171989]

i've been wondering, what would happen if an earthquake like that of Japan would hit Centralia? Would it cause the veins underground to collapse and snuff the flame?

[Mastophales]

I am sure no snow lays there in the winter !!!

[Baldgol4]

The government had no intention of trying to dig out or extinguish this fire. The last quote to dig it out was over 600 million dollars. It is burning now for fifty years and expected to burn perhaps a thousand years. No, they will never dig it out.

[Baldgol4]

Totally wrong. The government bought the homes and paid to move those who lived there so they will NOT have to try and dig out the fire. The cost to dig it out was estimated at over $600 MILLION and the buy out was $50 million. The fire is expected to burn for up to one thousand years with all the coal under the ground. It will not be dug out.