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<p>David DeKok poses on abandoned Route 61 in Centralia, Pa., on Thursday. Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump spread to a network of coal mines underneath hundreds of homes and business in the northeastern Pennsylvania borough of Centralia, eventually forcing the demolition of nearly every building.</p>

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Fifty years later, coal fire outlasts town
May 26, 2012 9 p.m.

Fifty years later, coal fire outlasts town

Downfall of Centralia still fascinates

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