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Old April 2nd 15, 11:40 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Wednesday's Kingsway subterranean cable fire still burning

This is going to be like one of those coal fires.

There is one going on in a place called Centralia in Pennsylvania:

"The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962." - Wikipedia.

In future we'll have this:

"The Kingsway fire is a cable-run fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Westminster, London, since at least April 1st, 2015."

There are other, bigger coal-seam fires. China has a few massive ones, I think.