In October 2013, the eight remaining residents of the once 2,700-strong town of Centralia ... fire from 1932 was never fully extinguished, and had been slowly spreading toward an abandoned strip ...

To clean up the town landfill, officials set the dump on fire. What they didn’t realize was that this dump was located right ...

state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia, a borough in the mountains of east-central Pennsylvania that all but ceased to exist in the 1980s after the mine fire spread ...

One of Pennsylvania’s icons is being covered ... had a population of over 2,000 residents at one time until an underground mine fire in the 1960s forced the town’s residents to evacuate ...

It's not completely clear how the fire started, but most historical accounts hold that burning trash in a landfill near an abandoned strip mine ignited an exposed coal vein. The fire spread ...

BUTLER TWP., Pa. — The underground mine fire in Centralia, Columbia County, has been talked about for decades. Virtually everyone in the central Pennsylvania borough had to be relocated ...

Bobby Hughes, an officer of the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation ... ways to commemorate Centralia’s history.” The underground fire that pushed Centralia into ...

This hellish landscape constitutes about all that remains of the once-thriving town of Centralia, Pennsylvania ... the former Powderly Mine, where a fire of unknown origin broke out in 1995.