The Pennsylvania town destroyed by a fire burning since 1962

In 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania decided to burn trash in a landfill built inside an abandoned strip mine. The fire never went out. Sixty-three years later, it's still burning.

The underground coal seam fire spreads through a labyrinth of abandoned mines beneath the town, burning at depths up to 300 feet across an 8-mile stretch. — Read the rest

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