From the back kitchen window of his little house on a ridge in east-central Pennsylvania ... airways—a perfect setting for a coal fire. The Centralia fire probably got going in May 1962 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Centralia has become a harrowing and eerie tourist destination for curious roadtrippers making their way through Pennsylvania. This simple coal mining town met its fate in 1962 when a fire ...