For years, residents viewed the fire as a troublesome but controllable problem. A persistent reek of sulphur and smoke ...

Ten years later in 1979, the fire reached a point of no return. The mayor, John Coddington, who also ran a gas station, discovered during a routine check that the gasoline in his underground tanks was ...

Deep in Pennsylvania sits a ghost town swallowed by fire, silence, and rumor. Centralia was once a normal mining community filled with families, shops, and church bells. Today, only steam vents, ...

An American town has been burning underground for more than 60 years. Once a thriving coal community, Centralia, Pennsylvania was slowly erased from the map, its streets abandoned, homes demolished, ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Oxford American report on Picher, Oklahoma's annual Christmas parade, reviving community spirit in a ghost town impacted by toxic mining.