I rented the movie Silent Hill a couple of weeks ago and thought it was an interesting idea to have a slow burning coal fire underground as a setting/situation for a movie but I didn't think such a thing actually existed until I stumbled across Centralia, Pennsylvania. I then found a blog with some pics on it...click the post title to visist this blog.=
In 1962, a little fire in Centralia (Pennsylvania) migrated into an exposed vein of anthracite coal under the town. The flames on the surface were successfully extinguished, but the coal continued to burn underground for many years, so that in 1984 the fire was completely out of control and the city had to be evacuated.
Nowadays, Centralia is an abandoned and ghostly place. The fire still burns beneath the town and there is enough coal to feed the fire for up to 250 years.
The ruins of Centralia no longer exists on some maps. Most of the buildings have been razed, and at casual glance the area now appears to be a meadow with several paved streets through it. According to Wikipedia, the only indications of the fire are low round metal steam vents in the south of the borough, and several signs warning of underground fire, unstable ground, and carbon monoxide.
I'll try to find a video on youtube about this as well to provide some more visuals.
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