The Real Good Coal Mining Folk Songs

There's a famous example in the united states of a coal seam fire that's been burning for decades. The poem i found was on by a poet named leonard cress, called the centralia mine fire. It talks about the town being the shrine of the holy order of anthracite. And so the the idea is that the coal caught fire either when a scheduled trash burn at a local land fill penetrated the mine tunnels and managed to ignite the coal.