Interactive map There was a time when homes lined Locust Avenue in Centralia, Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 people lived there. Today, it’s a ghost town. An underground coal fire has been ...

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

Newly released Pennsylvania maps indicate that the coal-fueled fire under Centralia could spread to the nearby town of Mount Carmel, according to an author who recently updated his book on the fire.

The main highway, Route 61, had to be rerouted due to the damage caused by the fire. The Pennsylvania ... In 1983, Centralia's ZIP code was revoked, effectively erasing the town from maps.

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 ...

They seemed to coil out of the ground from a grassy patch near a tree by his house in the rural town of Centralia ... holes that are not on any map. Digging the fire out is prohibitively expensive ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. (WHTM) – Centralia was founded in 1866 ... So the Centralia Council decided the best way to clean the garbage was to set it on fire. This caused an underground fire to start ...

CENTRALIA, Pa. — The Thanksgiving holiday is almost upon us. Many of us will gather at home with loved ones and enjoy their company with some delicious food. Over the years, the holiday season ...

The Centralia fire has been burning through an abandoned deep mine in Pennsylvania’s Buck Mountain Coal Bed since May of 1962. State officials aren’t entirely sure how the blaze started ...

Beneath abandoned coal mines lies an eternal coal-seam fire in the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania. No one knows how it started, but it has been burning since at least 1962. But peer into the ...