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(Score: 1) by crutchy on Monday February 17 2014, @07:33AM
don't seem to be able to use the 'Submit Story' feature at the moment... i just thought i'd flag a little saga currently unfolding near where i live
an open cut coal mine that supplies coal to a nearby 1600MW power station has been on fire for over a week
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/min e-smoke-hits-19-vic-firefighters/story-fni0xqi4-12 26829247880 [heraldsun.com.au]
what might be more interesting is the lack of news media attention to it
(Score: 1) by Popeidol on Monday February 17 2014, @11:14AM
To see just how bad this can get, There's a coal seam in the US that's been burning since 1962. The adjacent town had to be evacuated after houses started collapsing into the ground and carbon monoxide poisoning became a risk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by clone141166 on Monday February 17 2014, @11:18AM
crutchy I have submitted your story via the submission page (for whatever reason it seems to work for me) and credited you for it - I just copied in your comment verbatim.