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<p>In this April 1981 photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that burns under the town.</p>

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Fifty years later, coal fire outlasts town
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Fifty years later, coal fire outlasts town

Downfall of Centralia still fascinates