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Results 1 - 13 of 13 in Centralia, PA

  1. The Fire down below

    Wednesday Nov 25 | MetaFilter

    Centralia Pennsylvania : Since 1962 Centralia has stood on top of a coal mine fire, the origin of which was likely a trash fire started by firemen in an effort to clean up the local landfill.

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    Related Topix: Fire

  2. Centralia

    Wednesday Nov 4 | Jordoncooper.com

    The stupidness of humans never ceases to amaze me. The good people of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn some garbage in May 1962 and hired some volunteer firefighters to do the job and they did in an abandoned coal mine.

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    Related Topix: Fire

  3. Best of Eerie Horror Fest frights and delights students

    Wednesday Nov 4 | The Spectator

    ... away that they had no idea what they had gotten themselves into. Filmed in the abandoned Pennsylvania town of Centralia, the setting of "Sinkhole"?aided to the eerie-factor of the movie. Centralia has been abandoned ever since the Sixties when a ...

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    Related Topix: Edinboro, PA, Entertainment

  4. Centralia: Pa.'s Infamous Ghost Town -- See Our Viewers' Pictures

    Oct 6, 2009 | WGAL-TV

    Centralia, Pa., is one of the stranger places in America. A once thriving coal town, it was abandoned after a fire started at a trash dump in 1962 and spread to an open coal seam.

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  5. Send Us Your Centralia Pictures - Image From Whitney Maisano

    Sep 29, 2009 | WGAL

    Centralia, Pa., is one of the stranger places in America. A once thriving coal town, it was abandoned after a fire started at a trash dump in 1962 and spread to an open coal seam.

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  6. International Battery of Allentown, PA Brings Green Power to NASA

    Sep 24, 2009 | Matter Network

    ... Allentown/And they're closing all the factories down"), but also because the city is a mere hour's drive away from Centralia PA, one of the world's most infamous symbols of old school fossil fuels and their devastating consequences. International ...

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    Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA

  7. Palladiuma s New Campaign Explores The Forgotten New York

    Aug 18, 2009 | Fashion.psfk

    ... objects and everyday situations". The series also includes a spelunking exploration through the coalmines ofA Centralia, PA, a missile silo site, and one unnamed location. Also available will by Sutherland's documentation on the making of these ...

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  8. Planning real-to-reel on small-town Pa.

    Aug 3, 2009 | Philly.com

    ... about the way people really live. The result was The Town That Was , a documentary about the strange history of Centralia, Pa., a once-thriving mining town in Columbia County that sits atop an underground coal fire that has smoldered since 1962. The ...

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    Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Columbia County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Dunmore, PA

  9. Rogers Prairie, One of the Ghost Towns in TexasRead the original story

    Aug 1, 2009 | Associated Content

    ... cover the land and people had to move out. Contamination of the land has caused some towns to be left behind. In Centralia, Pennsylvania dangerous underground coal fires are burning and the town was abandoned. A very small number of people chose to ...

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    Related Topix: Texas, Leon County, TX

  10. Paul Carpenter: We're off to see ... the wonderful scam

    Jul 3, 2009 | The Morning Call

    ... wind farm can be, just take a ride in Schuylkill County,'' he wrote. ''A ridge that stretches from Mahanoy City to Centralia, an area of the best hunting and passive recreational woods in that part of the county, has been ruined with these ...

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    Related Topix: Frackville, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Shenandoah, PA, Macungie, PA, Mahanoy City, PA

  11. The Town That WasRead the original story w/Photo

    Jul 2, 2009 | Pop Syndicate

    A documentary about the few remaining citizens of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town where coal fires have been burning underground for over 40 years.

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    Related Topix: Video Games, Fire

  12. DVD: The Town That Was

    Jun 22, 2009 | New York Press

    ... documentary that squanders an interesting subject with unrefined populist outrage. The film details the fall of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once-typical mining town that now stands on a searing and noxious anthracite coal fire. The fire began in 1962 ...

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    Related Topix: Fire

  13. Giant Burning Holes of the World

    Jun 16, 2009 | Boing Boing

    ... other day by a user named Dave. It's a massive underground coal fire that's been smoldering beneath the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania ever since 1962: The town sits on top of a rich vein of coal, and the fire has defied every attempt to extinguish ...

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    Related Topix: Blog News, Life, Hobbies, Spelunking

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