A coal fire below Centralia, PA has been burning for 45 years and has enough fuel to burn for another 250 years. It's a real life horror story with no immediate end in sight. The roads are closed, signs are posted about toxic gas emissions, the cemeteries have a greater population than the town ever had, and the underground coal mine fire, which started in 1962, continues to burn.
In 1962, Centralia was a growing community of about 1100 residents. The town sat upon one of the richest veins of anthracite coal in the United States. Now there are 4 people who live there. One of the residents is Lamar Mervine, the town's 86 year old mayor, who recalls how no one took action for four or five months and when they did, it was too little, too late. He is determined to stay in Centralia and tell his story to all who ask.
As recently as 1981, there were over 1,000 residents living in Centralia, although the population has now
dwindled to 11 (we'll say that again: 11 people) as a result of a 40-year mine fire burning beneath the
borough (we'll say that again: it's been burning for 40 years... underneath the town). This is certainly
not unlike Silent Hill, which was left deserted since devastating coal fires ravaged the town and its people.
The inferno started when a trash fire was lit in an abandoned mine pit in Centralia in 1962. The fire
ignited an exposed vein of coal and spread throughout the mines beneath the borough. Several attempts
have been made and millions of dollars have been spent unsuccessfully to extinguish this fire that still burns today.
The "problem" wasn't really acknowledged until a series of accidents in the '70s and '80s, including the
appearances of sinkholes hundreds of feet deep. In 1984, Congress allocated more than $40 million for relocation
efforts, and most residents moved to nearby Mount Carmel and Ashland.
However, a very few families opted to stay, and they're still there, despite the fact that the state of
Pennsylvania has condemned all the buildings in the borough and the US Postal Service has revoked its zip
code of 17927. The 11 holdouts include the town's 89-year-old mayor, Lamar Mervine, who refuses to leave
because "I like it here."
even people lives there still but only dead people those people who are having there body but an empty body with no hearts and they are still burning with that little girl who was burned before the city cum in the fire .... and hat girl was the only way of purity of the city said by the mayor but now she needed revenge of her life ... that why the city is still burning today also but not above the earth surface its burning down the earth surface thats mean below the road of the city coze dat city is now under the earth surface ... dats y this city knwn to be most haunted city which have no records in the registers ... no one knows what happning there down the city ... its being a mystery only
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