The Town on Fire for 60 Years 🔥 Centralia 📍Pennsylvania #centralia #pennsylvania #mine #minefire #burningtown #fire #burn #ghosttown #country #mystery #learn #us #map #maps #geography #History #viralfact #facts #fyp #interestingfact #geotok #historytok

Can you imagine there is a town in the US that has been on fire for 60 years and will continue to burn for another 250? Welcome to Centralia. Centralia is a small town located in the heart of Pennsylvania's coal region and is dotted with numerous coal mines. Every year before Memorial Day, the town burned all the trash in a landfill, but in 1962, a fire spread into a nearby mine. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and it expanded into a vast network of underground coal mines. The fire spread to a depth of 300 feet and across 4,000 acres were flames burst out of the ground, releasing toxic gases and houses began to fall into the ground. In 1984, Congress allocated more than $42 million to relocate residents and most people left their homes. Today, Centralia is a ghost town. Since 2002, the zip code has been removed, and Highway 61, which ran through it, is blocked off and covered with tons of dirt to prevent attracting tourists. The fire will burn there for at least another 250 years.