The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire & Social Conflict
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| Originally published | 1990 |
| Authors | Steve Kroll-Smith |
| Stephen Robert Couch | |
| Editors | Stephen Robert Couch |
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| ID | 2439035 |
About The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire & Social Conflict
In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. . . .