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Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire Paperback - 2009
by Dekok, David
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- Title Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire
- Author Dekok, David
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised edition
- Condition New
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Globe Pequot, Guilford, CN
- Date 2009-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0762754273_used
- ISBN 9780762754274 / 0762754273
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress subjects Centralia (Pa.) - History, Mine fires - Pennsylvania - Centralia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009026061
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.379
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Centralia, Pennsylvania, lived and died by anthracite coal. The town's population peaked at 2,761 in 1890, but by 1981 had dwindled to just over 1,000--not unusual for a Pennsylvania mining town. But today Centralia has no more than a dozen inhabitants, and they are expected to be gone before long. The reason: an underground fire that has burned since 1962 in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines beneath Centralia, making parts of the town uninhabitable.By 1981 the fire was sending deadly gases into homes, making children sick, and one day a twelve-year-old boy dropped into a steaming hole and almost died as a U.S. congressman toured nearby. David DeKok describes how the fire began and how the majority of Centralia residents fought for and finally obtained relocation from the town, even as some of their neighbors claimed there was no threat. He reveals what happened to the few remaining diehards as the fiftieth anniversary of the fire's beginning nears.
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2010, Page 287