Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire BISAC-STU017000 From a Pulitzer Prize finalist

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist

" having no function but that of adding "markups" to the prices charged by farmers and manufacturers

It is pollution in the public square

What if the person she must kill has become her friend

Gerhard Nellhaus

Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire BISAC-STU017000 From a Pulitzer Prize finalistHow a modern day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000 not unusual for a onetime mining town. But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome distinction of being the state's tiniest municipality, with a population of nine. The reason: an underground fire that began in 1962 has decimated the town