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The Pennsylvania town that's been on fire since 1962

In a small Pennsylvania town, the ground itself has been on fire for more than sixty years. It started in 1962, beneath the streets of Centralia. The likely cause was a fire lit to clean out a landfill, a fire that found a hidden seam of coal running under the town.

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