Thanks for looking into this video. Hopefully it’s provided some background about Centralia, PA. ‘The Town That Was.’ My Company produced a short film there that showcases what’s left of the town. Please give it a look! The link is listed below: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqeWm414gJKegqs

I wonder which couple of guys are responsible for eliminating the entire town

2:34 cemetery spelled wrong on the sign

I live only 13 minutes from Centralia. It makes me wonder if the fire will ever come to my town. It destroyed the town of Bynesville next to Centralia. I recently watched the documentary called "the town that was" which is on youtube. They played sad music as they talked about how the people lost their town. If you haven't seen it, you should. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpnEn5SFls2ApcU

Isn't it great the richard simmons hair style is no longer in

Anyone ever think of injecting at the deepest part of the mines Halon in minimal amounts ? Come from the back of it at an angle like they drill offshore oil

Why doesn't the government just do a wide and 50 miles deep air tight and temperature and pressure cap vaccum chamber that can with stand temperatures of over 1 million degrees,, like vaccum chamber dome that encompasses the entire town of Centralia, with the vaccum chamber, all of the air from the coal and the environment and the ground will be sucked out, and the vaccum chamber pressure will be greater than the underground fire, thus killing the underground fire in Centralia permanently, fire cannot start in a sealed air tight vaccum chamber, if the pressure is far greater inside than on the outside, the fuel will becomes useless to the fire, without its oxygen to. Burn that fuel. And with that air tight vaccum chamber not letting in any air, the fire cannot keep going without its oxygen,and its fuel releases co2, the smoke will choke out the underground fire, and no air,more co2, the fire dies.

2019 is the year, I watched another video that said the Fed Govt. Condemned the whole town...

"Its a ghost town now" As 2 cars drive by lol

Flood it

Umm, it DID cause the end of the town.

Dumb Asses!!

Modern marvels ?? Nothing to Marvell here ! They didn’t put it out and they didn’t utilize the heat source for energy or power generation . Very lame and depressing conduct of engineering, DEP, state of Pa mining regulation and reclamation , no leadership whatsoever

So if they pumped water down there for 20 years it would be out now !! WTF ?

Then wouldnt it been pheasable to pipe in salt water from ocean and feds step in to find it under emergency management. Would have been more logical to fill and pump water from ocean in.

You will never put it out. Hope it runs out of fuel before it reaches Ashland in 40 years.

with all the places looking to dump CO2 why not simply snuff it out with CO2? solve a couple problems at once,,

I think the firemen were probationary firemen and were sent to the dump as a joke. Then they messed things up.

Nobody thought of blocking the oxygen to the fire ? Closing the mineshaft entrances or something ? Instead of digging holes ? And bore holes ?

Such a sad Fate to a Nice little home. wonder if the mine fire is still going?

Once again we have proof that firefighters and cops are still the biggest idiots in this country. They have no clue about anything. Who burns a dump located on top of a coal mine?

That's the problem with USA government, they don't give and still don't get a single fuck about the population.

Last I heard, there was only 4 ppl left

Pump sea water in there 🙁

Do nothing and now they are crying about global warming. The government is the worst culprit.

Evacuate the entire area close off every hole you can find after you load the mines with bunker bombs and blow the shit out of it it would deplete the oxygen and maybe put the fire out

I think this still burns today? WOW... ugly business... what a story... This is crazy...

Rockin the mullet in 2004, true Joe Dirt

a way they tried to put out the coal fire was to add more coal? right... fresh or waste coal its still coal thats like throwing gas on a gas fire its still adding fuel to the fire they just need to go in and dig it out you eliminate the fire and stockpile coal that they can then sell off to offset the cost of extinguishing the fire

Seems the more they tried to fix it,the worse it got.Brilliant.

the residents just don't get how massive, complicated, and expensive fighting a mine fire really is, and they don't have the money to put the fire out any more than the local government does, if I had to make an uneducated guess, I'd say the fire would take tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to fully put out, and the area would take decades after that and tens or hundreds of millions more to repair the damage just reaching the fire would cause.

create man made river... 😂✌🏻

Water is to be avoided for fossil fuel fires extinguishing. Water carries oxygen dissolved, thus actually intensifying such fires (formation of oxocarbons, which are more potent to catch fire than "fresh" coal).

A Catholic priest from the Irish Catholic Church, St. Ignatius in 1874 cursed the town and stated all would burn except the church. Joke was on him, the church Didn't burn but all the parishioners left.

Where there are volunteer fireman there is sure to be alcohol.

Home of the Schmege brothers.

It is a ghost town, always was mentally deficient.

Unfortunately John Lokitis was finally forced to move out, and I believe his home was demolished.

Yep, we need to roll back regulations on the coal corporations and MAGA!

Maybe detonate explosives underground?

is that peter brady lol?

- - ANDY OSTROWSKI HAS REVEALED THE "BURNING" AS A PLANNED DISRUPTION, TO ALLOW LAND-GRAB. THE WHOLE THING IS A MEDIA-HYPED TRICK. CENTRALIA IS WORLD'S LARGEST KNOWN ANTHRACITE COAL DEPOSIT. THINK ABOUT THAT -- THE PEOPLE, INDIVIDUAL LAND OWNERS, HAD TO GO. IN ANOTHER GENERATION OR THREE, THE NEW LAND/MINERAL "OWNERS" (THE GRABSTERS) WILL REAP THE PROFITS. LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO ANDY OSTROWSKI.

I was covering this part of PA for ServisStar a hardware company, and saw this first hand. It was sobering.

as of 2017, the last home standing, the mayor's home, was demolished. no homes remain standing

Well,.turn the whole lot into a power plant then! put it to use! geothermal of a different kind.

I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania which isn't far away. We also had three mile island back in the 1970's

2:00 Poor horses , heartbreaking :(

Climate change, anyone?

I could be wrong here folks but the failed attempts also kept a lot of people employed. At least until the Fed came to the conclusion that the coal mine that produced so much revenue had instead become a money pit that besides burning coal was burning through vast amounts of federal funds/resources. Sad end to what could have been a thriving town. ;) Now the conspiracy theorist in me says it was all set up by the government. Yes that's right people! Uncle Sam had bigger plans for that land and it did not include the population currently residing in it. It was during the Vietnam era. Military was receiving all kinds of funding to support the war effort against the commies. Who knows what really lies underneath that town. Secret military base/underground bunker. UFO storage, secret lab with God awful genetic experiments on both human subjects and animals. Who knows. Or maybe...just maybe...they had somehow opened a portal to a dark dimension. Maybe even a portal to the very gates of.... HELL!! Ok, maybe that's a stretch. lol! Sorry, too many Stephen King movies. ;) lol!!

there was a hole here. It's gone now.