First Person: Last Days in a Burning Town

State officials are trying to finish moving Centralia, Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after fire spread underneath homes and businesses, threatening residents with gases and sinkholes. (Feb. 5)

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[ThelolBubba]

@Mooncricket silent hill was based off of this town

[Baldgol4]

Nobody wants anthracite coal.

[LynxOGrady]

@Mooncricket i know! especially the picture from 1966

[4TIMESAYEAR]

It's not the only one - some have been burning for centuries (and people think we don't have enough energy resources to last???) Look this up: "Underground coal fires called a 'catastrophe' Saturday, February 15, 2003" "One coal fire in northern China, for instance, is burning over an area more than 3,000 miles wide and almost 450 miles long."

[Mooncricket]

Reminds me of Silent Hill

[Docthewrench]

@mard420 not in america  we dont build them anymore not allowed too

[bpyjktgiuk]

Why don't they mine the coal before it gets burned.

[BertGriffin88]

Talk about your coal fired pollution generator. What a wierd story. Burning since '60s, how come this isn't a well known story. Have the geothermal jocks looked at this fire? How much coal are we talking? I guess if you dug this up you'd have blazing fires instead of a smoldering fire. People going without heat this winter and Centralia PA is burning.

[HappilyDayzed]

We are suicidal psychopaths bent on our own destruction!

[TheLiberalssuckdick]

Don't burn trash near a mine.