British Expatriate Network

Has anybody else heard of anything like the following story before? I thought it was so oddly interesting that I had to post it.

http//www.damninteresting.com/?p=479

Basically a small fire started in the mouth of a coal mine in Pennsylvania in 1962 caused the entire town t obe evacuated, and the fire is still burning today 44 years later!

Wow - that is an amazing story. I'd certainly never heard of it before.

Me! We had a wildfire in 2002 in Colorado that was started by a coal seam fire burning since 1910;

http//www.aspentimes.com/article/20060215/NEWS/102150016

I was very amazed at this story at the time.

oh yes, I've heard of this. There's one burning in Northumberland somewhere, apparently. Or was 15 years ago. It was moving so slowly and heading further underground that they reckoned it was no danger and would eventually have insufficient oxygen and die. 50 years down the road, of something like that.

I've heard about it and others. Isn't this the one mentioned in Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods?