Pennsylvania Borough Slips Toward Ghost Town as Underground Mine Fire Still Rages
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Pennsylvania borough slips toward ghost town as underground mine fire still rages
Only a few residents remain in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a borough that once had about 1,200 people and where an underground mine fire still burns beneath the streets. The disaster has made Centralia one of the clearest examples in the United States of how long the damage from fossil fuels can endure, according to AS USA. Here's what to know The Centralia fire began in May 1962 and has never been extinguished. The most widely accepted explanatio…
The tragic fate of the city of Centralia illustrates the serious environmental impact of poorly managed coal extraction in the east of America. Continuous flames in the underground caused the structural collapse of the territory and forced the government to evacuate the entire local population permanently. How did the underground fire start in the coal mines? The accident started... The post A fire started under this American city in 1962 and st…
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