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Re: Underground fires

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Underground fires
Date 2025-12-20 04:48 +0000
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:28:38 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2025-12-19 03:01, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:46:15 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I have not heard of root fire in my country. Peat fire going on for
>>> many months, yes. Rekindling a forest fire, yes. Crews remain around
>>> for some time after the fire is put out.
>> 
>> https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/underground-zombie-peat-fires-
release-100-
>> times-the-carbon-of-wildfires/
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
> 
> Let me see if I understood. The city set fire to a garbage dump filling
> the huge hole of an old open air mine, and the fire propagated to the
> mine, which happened to be a coal mine?

That's it in a nutshell. They thought they were dealing with a strip mine 
or basically a big hole in the ground that was filled with garbage and 
burning it was a good idea. They didn't realize the garbage was covering 
the entrance to a labyrinth of underground coal mines. 

Setting fire to garbage was illegal in the first place so they messed 
around trying to cover their tracks and kept getting deeper and deeper in 
shit. The miners followed coal veins so it was a real labyrinth.

https://storyofbutte.org/files/show/5725

Butte was copper mines but the whole town is sort of sitting on an ant 
hill. There is a museum there that has so 3D models that were prepared for 
lawsuits that are really impressive. The suits occurred when Company A 
following a vein broke through into Company B's tunnels. I have no idea 
how they even knew where they were.

Butte has the opposite problem to a mine fire. When they switched to an 
open pit and turned off the pumps in the underground mine tunnels the 
whole mess filled with highly toxic water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit


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