No Firefighter Can Put This Underground Fire Out

There are a lot of amazing natural phenomena around the globe. But have you ever heard about underground fires? Imagine you go for a walk, and see smoke rising from the ground. A volcano? Or maybe the Sun’s falling towards Earth, making everything burn? No worries, that’s just an underground fire! There’s a surprising amount of them around the world, and some have been around for a really long time.

For example, there were once thousands of residents in Centralia, Pennsylvania. Today it’s a ghost town, with a few scattered buildings and roads leading nowhere. What happened here? Well, an underground fire forced people to leave their homes for good. Nobody knows for sure how it began, but there are several theories….

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EPISODES:
Centralia mine fire 00:00
Burning mountain 2:27
Toxic waste and fire 4:29
Brennender Berg 6:13
Mountain in the middle of a real fire 6:56

Mud Volcano near Gobustan, Azerbaijan: Bruno Girin/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4083741

CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0:

A bench near a park in the center of Centralia, Pennsylvania: By Mredden, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10523443

BrennenderBerg2015-08: By K12566370614, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47446176

Beginn der Klamm, Wegweiser zum Naturdenkmal: By H. Schreiber, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21857924

Blick auf Dudweiler, aufgenommen von der Berghalde Lydia: Von Joetra, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12372699

Kohleaufschluß in Dudweiler: By Zecke64, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31395513

Yanar Dagh in the evening: By Frokor, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19319161

CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0:

Standalone row house in Centralia, Pennsylvania: By Z22, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34753180

Flames at Yanar Dag: By Ymblanter, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77869869

This is a photo of a natural site in Azerbaijan identified by the ID: Uzeyir Mikayilov, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58991031,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58989785

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