A Town in Pennsylvania Has Been Burning for Over 60 Years — And No One Can Stop It In 1962, the small mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, made a decision that would doom it forever. To clean up the local landfill before Memorial Day, officials set it ablaze — a routine burn that should have lasted hours. Instead, it ignited an underground coal seam that has been burning ever since. Beneath Centralia’s streets, an inferno rages. Toxic smoke seeps through cracks in the ground. Sinkholes appear