Centralia Mine Fire (Centralia, Pennsylvania USA)

“Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, 9 in 2007, and 10 in 2010, as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia is one of the least-populated municipalities in Pennsylvania.”

The video below has great shots of Centralia, but any mentions of the geography are suspect – Centralia is far from Pittsburgh and the map at the beginning is of some other Centralia:

[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYE4Erq8zf8[/embedyt]

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