Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Fire burning since '62

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Posted by rich (Member # 8140) on :

Now this is some wicked stuff.

I chanced upon this article while reading a screenplay review. The screenplay's fictional mine continued to burn to keep the monsters out, but I don't think anything can equal the horror of this one sentence from the Wikipedia article:

"Statewide attention to the fire began to increase, culminating in 1981 when 12-year-old resident Todd Domboski fell into a subsidence four feet wide by 150 feet (46 m) deep that suddenly opened beneath his feet in a backyard."

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting; maybe a jumping off point for an idea for a novel or short story.

Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :

Well, Centralia has been prominently featured in news stories, on and off, as far back as I can remember. But I haven't heard anything since, oh, 2000 or 2001, I think. Every generation has to discover it anew, I guess.