You could call Centralia, Pa., the town of fires that never die. While this ghost town in Columbia County is infamous for the coal fire that forced its population to evacuate three decades ago, its ...

Former News-Item and Patriot News reporter David DeKok has written a revised and updated book about the mine fire in Centralia that details the relocation of residents, demolition of most of the town ...

The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town that was largely razed in the 1980s because of an underground mine fire that still burns today have gotten their wish — to be left alone, free ...