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On the morning of April 7, 1869, a fire spread at the 800-foot level in the Yellow Jacket Mine. [10] Firefighters entered the mine but the smoke and flames pushed them back. As the fire burned, wood timbers collapsed and poisonous gases expanded into the adjacent Kentucky and Crown Point mines.
Both photos taken from (roughly) the same viewpoint. An open-pit mine was dug (ramp lower left, bottom photo) after 1900. Gold Hill is an unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City.
Shoofly Fire: 104 acres. 63% contained. Ignited on July 8. Located nine miles north of Stevens Pass. No crew information available. Williams Mine Fire: 11,200 acres. 0% contained. Started noon Aug. 5.
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The mine was opened in 1869 and is nearly worked out. It is mine No. 3, Nos. 1 and 2 having-been worked out. About 200 men worked in the mine by day and as many as 75 at night. Nearly the whole force was Chinamen. A fire had been raging in the mine for 5 years, but it had been hemmed in by stone walls.
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There were 29 large wildfires and wildfire complexes burning around Oregon as of Thursday morning. Here's the latest news.
The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate.