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50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town
It's an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won't be celebrating.Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.All these decades later, the Centralia fire still burns. It also maintains its grip on
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