they emptied the coal mine then used it as a garbage dump

the garbage caught on fire

is there an actual town you can go to?

the lack of air keeps it smoldering but not burning

or is it just hills and shit?

@.Not Sean it was a town that was on top of a old tapped out coal mine.

i mean now

Sort of Sean. Some buildings remain, most are gone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire

damn

They suspect burning garbage might have started it.

but it is still a coal mine fire.

Spoiler alert, coal mines and fire do not mix.

Dump touched a surface vein of coal

@The Yellow King man why did you spoil it

Coal and anything besides iron do not mix

controled burn of the dump light the vain

Thermal coal is cancer

It's basically an abandoned town covered in graffiti

With cracks in the ground with smoke coming out

If you go when it's foggy, it is downright terrifying

almost every picture i've found is void of any real buildings

Most of the huildings were torn down so they wouldn't light up

No they were using a coal stripmine as a garbage dump.

it's not even a town anymore

rip

There are some places where there are still frames of buildings but nothing really solid

Fun fact, apparently penn was starting to seriously regulate that shit the year this happened.

There are like 3 people still there

Tasmania has ghost towns, looks like just a bunch of mobile homes like a trailer park

We have ghost towns in our forests. More like tent cities

Just outside the libraries

Lol

Tons of trash and needles

that we keep repeating this stupid shit has always amazed me https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st-louis-underground-fire-20151010-story.html

that was 2015

Sick

Oh that sounds like a spectacularly bad idea

Hasn't St Louis seen a pretty big increase in violent crime in the past few years as well?

Like Russian ruthenium accident of 2016 bad idea

2017?