The Burning Town of Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia is a small town located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the very heart of Anthracite country. In May 1962, a fire started in a carelessly disposed trash incineration in an open pit mine near the town.

The fire on the exterior were efficiently put out, but unknowingly to the flame martial artists, the fossil fuel ongoing to get rid of subterranean. Over the following weeks it rapidly moved into the nearby fossil fuel mines and below town, air flow hot and harmful smells up into the city, through the cellars of houses and businesses. For the next two decades, workers fought the flame, eliminating the mines with water and fly ash, excavated the burning material and dug ditches, backfilled, exploration again and again in an look for the limitations of the flame and plan to put the flame out or at least contain it.

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