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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:28:38 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-12-19 03:01, rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:46:15 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> I have not heard of root fire in my country. Peat fire going on for   
   >>> many months, yes. Rekindling a forest fire, yes. Crews remain around   
   >>> for some time after the fire is put out.   
   >>   
   >> https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/underground-zombie-peat-fires-   
   release-100-   
   >> times-the-carbon-of-wildfires/   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire   
   >   
   > Let me see if I understood. The city set fire to a garbage dump filling   
   > the huge hole of an old open air mine, and the fire propagated to the   
   > mine, which happened to be a coal mine?   
      
   That's it in a nutshell. They thought they were dealing with a strip mine   
   or basically a big hole in the ground that was filled with garbage and   
   burning it was a good idea. They didn't realize the garbage was covering   
   the entrance to a labyrinth of underground coal mines.   
      
   Setting fire to garbage was illegal in the first place so they messed   
   around trying to cover their tracks and kept getting deeper and deeper in   
   shit. The miners followed coal veins so it was a real labyrinth.   
      
   https://storyofbutte.org/files/show/5725   
      
   Butte was copper mines but the whole town is sort of sitting on an ant   
   hill. There is a museum there that has so 3D models that were prepared for   
   lawsuits that are really impressive. The suits occurred when Company A   
   following a vein broke through into Company B's tunnels. I have no idea   
   how they even knew where they were.   
      
   Butte has the opposite problem to a mine fire. When they switched to an   
   open pit and turned off the pumps in the underground mine tunnels the   
   whole mess filled with highly toxic water.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit   
      
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