FILM REVIEW - The Town That Was

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In 1962, a trash fire ignited a seam of anthracite coal beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once thriving mining town of over 3,000 people. By the mid 1980's, giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monozide gases billowed from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked and collapsed, trees were bleached white and petrified, as the fire continued to rage unchecked. It wasn't until a young boy nearly died after falling into a smoldering mine subsidence that the government was pressed into action. After
Conservation Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, The Carolina Film & Video Festival