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Ashland | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA View of Ashland to the south, from atop the rock dump |
| © D. Maietta | Photo ID: 124334 View Count: 255 |
Burnt ground | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA The center of the fire moves around among the underground shafts from time to time, scorching and toasting the surface vegetation. |
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Chimney | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA A chimney intended to vent hot toxic gas that would otherwise seep into basements. |
| © D. Maietta | Photo ID: 124333 View Count: 248 |
Empty Streets | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA Empty streets and vacant lots, except for my car. A few people have refused orders to evacuate, such as the residents of the white house in the distance. |
| © D. Maietta | Photo ID: 124339 View Count: 398 |
Fire in the Hole | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA Sulfurous hot gases emanate from holes and cracks in the ground, like this one. |
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Panorama | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA Scorched trees and subsided ground indicate the underground fire's slow progress to the west. No amount of water and foam pumped into the old shafts has been able to extinguish the fire. |
| © D. Maietta | Photo ID: 124340 View Count: 356 |
Rock Dump | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA The rock dump for the old anthracite mines, worked during the late 1800s. |
| © D. Maietta | Photo ID: 124335 View Count: 240 |
Scorched Earth | |
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Centralia, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania, USA Looking north across scorched earth at the shade trees and empty streets that are the remnants of razed neighborhoods. A modern city hall building is visible in the distance, still open. A few stalwarts have refused to leave and try to prop up the pretense of a modern town. |
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