Centralia, Pennsylvania - Town on Fire

My oldest son (6) has a magazine subscription to a magazine called Ask. In one of the more recent issues we were reading there was a story about a town in Centrailia, Pennsylvania. It was an amazing issue that I was not aware took place. Basically, there was a fire that started in the early 1960's. It went underground and began trailing a coal mine. The city spent over $44 million dollars, did numerous studies and was unable to put the fire out. Now (40 years later) it is still burning! Experts say it may burn for 250 years! The town has been deserted.

you can view a video about it here;



Other places for research;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

There was also a documentary done on the town (you can find it on wikipedia above).