#coal fire

[thatpollguy]

When was the last time you lit a fire?

Today

This week

Last week

A couple of weeks ago

A month ago

A few months ago

About six months ago

About a year ago

Over a year ago

I've never lit a fire before

Voting ended onOct 14, 2025

[lifewithaview]

Secret History (1991) Titanic: The New Evidence

S17E1

Detailed examination of recently-found vintage photographs of Titanic's doomed maiden voyage reveals a disturbing secret: the Titanic's exterior hull shows damage from a little-known coal bunker fire in Boiler Room 6, in the exact same area where she was struck by the iceberg. The fire had already started by the time the Titanic set sail, yet knowledge of it was kept from the passengers. Experts believe that the heat weakened the steel in the hull and in an adjoining watertight bulkhead, causing the bulkhead to ultimately fail and allowing water to quickly enter the rest of the ship.

*When listing some of the Titanic's famous passengers, they refer to "Lady Astor". Madeleine Astor, wife of John Jacob Astor, did not bear the title "Lady" and Lady Nancy Astor, later the first female MP, was not linked with the Titanic.

[wtf-fun-factss]

A fire has been burning in Pennsylvania for over 60 years. Click to read the full fact.

[lovely-number-7]

How in my 14 years of Titanic being one of my special interests, am I just now learning that their might have been an uncontrolled coal fire? That the possible reason for them going so fast was the workers trying to get as much of the burning coal as they could into the furnaces? I have spent years trying to learn everything and anything I can about this goddamned boat, and I'm still learning new things!

[supplyside]

Plant Bowen is a coal-fired power station located just outside Euharlee, Georgia

[magpie-69]

I spent the afternoon at a friends to rewatch Dune, which we went to the pics to watch a few weeks back. He has the nicest fire🔥🥰 And he's just got a VR headset. That was so much fun! 😀😂😂😂

12th January '22

[ixlsalvasia]

[earthstory]

Under Ol' Smokey

Many of you may be familiar with the creepy horror movie Silent Hill, which was based, in part, on the coal seam fire that burns near Centralia, Pennsylvania (USA). That fire has been burning for 53 years after it was accidentally started (though no one is completely sure how) sometime in May or June 1962. The town of Centralia was eventually abandoned, but the coal fire continues to burn on.

But 53 years is nothing compared to the Mount Wingen (which means “fire” in the local Aboriginal language) fire, also known as Burning Mountain, which has been burning for 6,000 years.

According to the local Wanaruah people, the mountain has been used for warmth, to cook, and make tools for a long time, despite the noxious gases caused by the burning coal. Surface temperatures reach 350° C even though the blaze is contained 30 metres below the surface.

No one knows how this fire was started, though the first Europeans, who came to the area in 1828, thought the heat was from a volcano. In reality, the blaze could have been started by anything from lightning, a forest fire, or the Aboriginal people themselves. But once started, coal seams fires are nearly impossible to put out. In fact, there are around 1,000 coal seam fires burning in the world today.

Further reading on Centralia, PA:https://www.facebook.com/TheEarthStory/posts/521109511283431 Further reading: https://www.facebook.com/TheEarthStory/posts/652924618101919 and https://www.sciencealert.com/this-fire-in-australia-has-been-burning-for-6-000-years Photo credit: http://www.australiantraveller.com/hunter-valley/069-make-like-moses-at-burning-mountain/

-Colter