[this_ol_patriot]

Laurel Run in Wyoming Valley (Wilkes-Barre) has been burning since 1915, that was started by a carbide lamp. What I understand the coal seams in the Centralia-Ashland area run at steep inclines making the fires go real deep compared to the more eastern anthracite fields where the seams are flatter.

I lived in Hazleton when this started and remember one in Asley and we had one in Hazleton off of RT. 940.

[Gondring]

There are dozens of coalbed fires in PA, but Centralia is famous because of the surface threat and the borough being condemned.

I wasn’t in PA until several years after the excitement. It must have really been something, from Hazleton!