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Fire Underground : The Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire, Paperback ...
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- ISBN
- 9780762754274
- Book Title
- Fire Underground : the Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa)
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000--not unusual for a onetime mining town. But as of 2007, Centralia had the unwelcome distinction of being the state's tiniest municipality, with a population of nine. The reason: an underground fire that began in 1962 has decimated the town with smoke and toxic gases, and has since made history. Fire Underground is the completely updated classic account of the fire that has been raging under Centralia for decades. David DeKok tells the story of how the fire actually began and how government officials failed to take effective action. By 1981 the fire was spewing deadly gases into homes. A twelve-year-old boy dropped into a steaming hole as a congressman toured nearby. DeKok describes how the people of Centralia banded together to finally win relocation funds--and he reveals what has happened to the few remaining residents as the fiftieth anniversary of the fire's beginning nears.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0762754273
ISBN-13
9780762754274
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72559916
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fire Underground : the Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
2009
Genre
History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Length
9in
Item Weight
1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tn315.D448 2010
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
From Library Journal: "His Unseen Danger is an excellent, unbiased chronicle devoid of the emotionalism which set resident upon resident.", Praise for the author's previous book,Fire Underground "Enough bureaucratic villains to fill a Dickens novel." -New York Times Book Review "DeKok has not only reported and written a compelling first-hand account of how an underground fire destroyed Centralia, but he even gives us an anatomy of how the disaster happened and analyzes its implications for one community, and in a sense for all of us. A thoughtful and thoroughly engrossing read!" -Lisa Scottoline, author ofDirty Blonde,a fictional story about Centralia"An excellent, unbiased chronicle devoid of the emotionalism which set resident upon resident." -Library Journal(for the book as previously titled,Unseen Danger), Praise for the author's previous book, Fire Underground Enough bureaucratic villains to fill a Dickens novel." — New York Times Book Review DeKok has not only reported and written a compelling first-hand account of how an underground fire destroyed Centralia, but he even gives us an anatomy of how the disaster happened and analyzes its implications for one community, and in a sense for all of us. A thoughtful and thoroughly engrossing read!" —Lisa Scottoline, author of Dirty Blonde, a fictional story about Centralia "An excellent, unbiased chronicle devoid of the emotionalism which set resident upon resident." —Library Journal (for the book as previously titled, Unseen Danger), Praise for the author's previous book, Fire Underground"Enough bureaucratic villains to fill a Dickens novel." --New York Times Book Review "DeKok has not only reported and written a compelling first-hand account of how an underground fire destroyed Centralia, but he even gives us an anatomy of how the disaster happened and analyzes its implications for one community, and in a sense for all of us. A thoughtful and thoroughly engrossing read!" --Lisa Scottoline, author of Dirty Blonde, a fictional story about Centralia"An excellent, unbiased chronicle devoid of the emotionalism which set resident upon resident." --Library Journal (for the book as previously titled, Unseen Danger)
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-026061
Dewey Decimal
363.37/9
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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