The Town on Fire for 60 Years 🔥 Centralia 📍Pennsylvania #centralia #pennsylvania #mine #minefire #burningtown #fire #burn #ghosttown #country #mystery #us #learn #usa #unitedstates #states #map #maps #geography #history #border #viralfact #georeels #historyreels #reels #uniquegeography #learning #viral | Geoglobetales

This is unbelievable but true. Centralia, Pennsylvania, has an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since the 1960s! The fire started in 1962 when local authorities attempted to clean up the town landfill, situated in an abandoned strip mine. They set the garbage on fire, a common practice at the time. However, the fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it spread through the coal mines beneath the town. Over th