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Download or read book Slow Burn written by Renée Jacobs and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pictorial chronicle of the Centralia, Pennsylvania, mine fire disaster in 1962, which led, decades later, to the destruction of the town. Includes interviews and historical background"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Fire Underground written by David Dekok and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania by : Benjamin Shroder Schneck
Download or read book The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania written by Benjamin Shroder Schneck and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The borough was the only major northern community burned down by Confederate forces during the war, which led to accusations of war crimes.
Book Synopsis The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania by : Benjamin Shroder Schneck
Download or read book The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania written by Benjamin Shroder Schneck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Shroder Schneck
Book Synopsis The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ... With Corroborative Statements. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc by : Benjamin S. SCHNECK
Download or read book The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ... With Corroborative Statements. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc written by Benjamin S. SCHNECK and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Burning by : Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Download or read book Pennsylvania Burning written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Real Disaster Is Above Ground by : J. Stephen Kroll-Smith
Download or read book The Real Disaster Is Above Ground written by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the documentary materials and the community that has appeared. The authors report on the futile efforts of residents to reach a common understanding of an underground threat that was not readily visible and invited multiple interpretations. They trace the hazard management strategies of government agencies that, ironically, all too often created additional threats to the welfare of Centralians. They report on the birth and demise of community organizations, each with its own solution to the problem and its diehard partisans. The final solution, now being put into effect, is to abandon the town and relocate its people. Centralia's environmental disaster, the authors argue, is not a local or isolated phenomenon. It warns of the danger lurking in our own technology when safeguards fail and disaster management policy is not in place to respond to failure, as the examples of Chernobyl and Bhopal have clearly demonstrated. The lessons in this study of the fate of a small town in Pennsylvania are indeed sobering. They should be pondered by a variety of social scientists and planners, by all those dealing with the behavior of people under stress and those responsible for the welfare of the public.
Author :Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :12 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (682 download)
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Burning by : Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Download or read book Pennsylvania Burning written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania by : Benjamin Shroder Schneck
Download or read book The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania written by Benjamin Shroder Schneck and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :87 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (223 download)
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Burning by : Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Download or read book Pennsylvania Burning written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unseen Danger written by David DeKok and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Centralia mine fire; a government's indecisiveness and a town's struggle for survival.
Book Synopsis The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire by : Kathleen Purcell Munley
Download or read book The West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire written by Kathleen Purcell Munley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno deep below its surface--a fire raging through the deserted anthracite coal mine shafts that twisted and turned beneath that part of the city. After several years of attempting to contain the fire by flushing, municipal leaders decided that the only sure way of eliminating the threat to the community was by digging it out. To eradicate the burning menace, hundreds of homes and buildings were purchased and destroyed, and what was once a vibrant neighborhood became an abandoned wasteland. Historian Kathleen Purcell Munley narrates here the story of this great fire, identifying its source, tracing its history, and, through personal interviews with former Carbondale residents, reveals its physical and psychological toll. The mine fire destroyed the West Side as it was, but this volume will keep its memory alive and preserve an important chapter in the history of Carbondale and Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin by : Pennsylvania. Bureau of Fire Protection
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Fire Protection and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Day the Earth Caved In by : Joan Quigley
Download or read book The Day the Earth Caved In written by Joan Quigley and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania, The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire. In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers readers into the dramatic world of the underground blaze. Drawing on interviews with key participants and exclusive new research, Quigley paints unforgettable portraits of Centralia and its residents, from Tom Larkin, the short-order cook and ex-hippie who rallied the activists, to Helen Womer, the bank teller who galvanized the opposition, denying the fire’s existence even as toxic fumes invaded her home. Like Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action, The Day the Earth Caved In is a seminal investigation of individual rights, corporate privilege, and governmental indifference to the powerless.
Book Synopsis Brush Burning in Pennsylvania by : George Hermann Wirt
Download or read book Brush Burning in Pennsylvania written by George Hermann Wirt and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philadelphia Fire by : John Edgar Wideman
Download or read book Philadelphia Fire written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move. In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing eleven people and starting a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames. Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. “Reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Time) and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania State Reports by : Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
Download or read book Pennsylvania State Reports written by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)
