Once home to 1,000 residents in 1980, today only around five remain due to a coal mine fire that has been burning beneath the town since 1962. Centralia in Columbia County, Pennsylvania ...

The Centralia fire probably got going in May 1962, when local sanitation workers began burning trash at a site over an old mine entrance just outside town, igniting the underlying coal.

Apr. 18—No one was injured in a fire that burned at a strip mall in the 1200 block of Gold Street in Centralia early Friday morning, according to the Riverside Fire Authority. The cause of the ...

The coal mine was closed not because the coal deposits ... It is the oldest known coal fire. In Centralia, Pennsylvania, a coal seam fire has been burning since at least May 1962.

The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash. Thu, April 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM UTC Apr. 2—City of Centralia Public Works Water Department employees will begin flushing fire hydrants on Monday, April 7.