The Centralia fire has been burning through an abandoned ... there were approximately 25 million tons of coal in the main coal vein beneath Centralia when mining first began in the 1840s).

The fire began at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein. It could have been extinguished for thousands of dollars then, but a series of bureaucratic half-measures and a lack of funding ...

The immense vein of coal in the Hogback stretches ... with a new approach to extinguishing subterranean coal fires. The fire, thought to have been ignited by spontaneous combustion about 90 ...

Beth Card, a fire officer for the Forest Service's Little Missouri National Grasslands Medora District, said the ravine had been checked on and off the past year out of concern that a coal vein ...

not an actual coal vein, and should be out within three weeks. "It's far enough away from people's homes that it's not a danger," Goodman said. "It is not a Centralia-type fire. I feel eased now ...

where rich veins of coal lay beneath the surface. By 1869, some of that coal was burning. The cause isn’t known, but blasting, a cooking fire and even an illicit still have been listed as ...

The fire broke out at Anthracite, formerly the Split Vein Coal Co., around 6 a.m. Tuesday. About 100 firefighters from several local companies responded to the scene. Strong winds and the nature ...

At any rate it was a prehistoric fire that burned its way into the seam of coal in Coal Canyon, Wyoming, and left ashes to be discovered in this latter end of the nineteenth century by cowboys.

The Broad Mountain Vein at Coal Castle, which took fire on the 13th of December, thirteen years since, still continues to pour forth its sulphuric gases, and in wet weather steam may be seen ...

run veins of black gold that spelled both prosperity and heartbreak to the people who live there.In the late 1800s, coal drove the locomotives and fired the silver smelters of Aspen and Leadville and ...

BURLINGTON, N.D. (KMOT) - Burlington Rural Fire Department said Friday they are monitoring what they are referring to as coal vein fires in the area where the fires over the Easter weekend took place.