This Town Was ERASED by a MINE FIRE Still Burning Today - Laurel Run Pa
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- Officials stated that this Mine Fire was extinguished and is no longer burning, but my video proves otherwise. Welcome to the former town of Laurel Run Pennsylvania. Did you know that a mine fire erased this town? Not many do, but believe it or not this mine fire has been burning over 100 years and you can still find evidence of that today. Come along with myself & @rj78productions88 as we learn about the town, the mine fire and show how the area looks today.
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Please note, this is Not Centralia Pa!
When it comes to mine fires, many of you know about Centralia, but were you aware of this one?
Oh wow, I had no idea this was here, can't wait to watch it! I'm originally from Shamokin so I'm very familiar with Centralia. I moved to Wilkes-Barre for college and now I live in the Clarks Summit/Dalton area so your videos are spot on for me! So glad I recently found your channel!
I found out about it right after your "another google maps object" video came out.
I wasn't aware of this particular mine fire 🔥 but am amazed that the fire 🔥 was declared put out when it is clearly still burning 🔥
Amazing video JP 👍 Thanks so much for taking us all along with you on this adventure!
I've known about the Laurel Run mine fire for a while now. Though I knew about Centralia for way longer. As for the movie(s) kinda based on Centralia (i.e. Silent Hill) they were not exactly what I would call good movies.
By the way, have you ever considered checking out the former neighborhoods in Taylor, PA on Oak Street? The old homes that were there were demolished due to mining issues I believe (like my own neighborhood) and the lots are only now being redeveloped. As recently as the late 80's there was still an old house on the right at the bottom of the hill where they're building condos there now.
The left side of the street has yet to be redeveloped. Unfortunately I think most (if not all) of the properties are posted, so you'd have to fly the drone to check for remnants of the old houses.
@@CheapestGamer explored that area years ago and not much left to see. Today, practically everything is gone and posted like you said. Wish I had a camera back when the moffat coal breaker and all the equipment was still back there.
Interesting to read here on line how few people seem to be aware of Laurel Run. My wife was raised from birth in Laurel Run, lived there until she was 14 yrs old, when the federal government forced her family to move. A very, traumatic experience, particularly since her father, a retired miner with black lung disease died right after they were told they must get out.
She watched this video with me. We carefully studied each frame looking at familiar things. Many memories, both good and bad, but all very distinct and emotional. Basement doors had to be left open for government inspectors who would come around regularly to check for carbon monoxide, the reason they were forced to move.
She lived at the actual starting point of the Giant's Despair Hill Climb. Her home can be seen on many, of the old pics of the climb. Today, you can't see anything there, not even the train tracks which have also been removed. You might have parked across the street from where her house stood.
Thank you so much for watching and sharing her story. It's definitely very shocking how few people knew about this situation.
Does she belong to the FB group for Laurel Run?
Ever time I see or think of mines I think of my.great uncles and great grandfather who died 😢 In mine a live 😢 💔 so sad
Very sorry!!
That is sad. I'm so sorry. Pray they are resting in peace🙏❤️
It’s just amazing that an underground fire could burn for over a century…enough fuel underground to have heated Pennsylvania and surrounding states for so many years! We are literally sitting on a wealth of natural resources here in Pennsylvania! 🔥
You said it!
To bad that the government wants to do away with fossil fuel which is a bunch of bull you can't just stop using fossil fuel ,everything run on ,or get heated by this fuel
107 years is nothing. Brennender Berg in Saarland, Germany, has been burning since 1668, and Burning Mountain in New South Wales, Australia was going when Europeans arrived and is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years.
I'm 70 & was born & raised in Allegheny County, where pretty much every area is undermined. When we were kids, we used to play inside old mines that weren't closed up properly. 🤦🏻♀ I never heard of Centralia until I was let loose on the internet when I got a PC 12 years ago. This is the first I've heard of Laurel Run. I love learning something new every day. 🥰 Thanks for an interesting & entertaining video. 😘 I caught a few videos when you were visiting the Pgh area. I hope you enjoyed yourself here & found the people open & friendly (Pgh has been on the top of the list of friendliest people in a medium size city). 😊
I was too
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories For the most part, we would only go in as far as the large entrance room. We were dumb but not stupid. 🤭 One time, we tided a rope around one of my older brother's waist & he went in approx 25 feet beyond the entrance room with a flashlight. He slipped & fell into the mine water on the floor. He hurried out because of huge rats & bats. No one ever went in any farther as far as I know. A couple of years later, they finally got around to sealing the three entrances up. The mine openings were in the woods & the boro wanted to develop the land but they never did.
Awesome video JP! I thought it was going to be about Centralia, but it's great to learn there's actually another abandoned town! Thanks for sharing this with us! Very interesting! I remember one here in Kentucky years ago, they made a big cut through the mountain so it couldn't burn any further, my dad was a bulldozer operator and helped to try and stop it! I think its been burning for over 50 years now! It's just north of Hazard Ky. Awesome video! Great footage! Loved the replacement car!🤣
There's a heartache in Hazard!
Great video! Awesome to see that area again. Back in the late 1990s early 2000s, we use to go dirt biking up Laurel Run. As a teenager in the early 90s, there were movie theaters in the Wyoming Valley Mall and one was outside of the mall across from the Lowes/Olive Garden entrance from Mundy St. Rumor was the floor was hot due to the mine fires. We would go to the movies there in high school, never experienced the hot floor lol. I need to get back up to Laurel Run and Centralia again. Great videos! Keep up the great work
Thanks for checking it out
The movie theater issue was gases from being built on a landfill.
Grew up very near here and actually Laurel Run borough still exists. On top of the mountain is where the borough building and fire hall are. Also as you go up the Giant , East Northampton St. Or the old Easton Turnpike as it was also called, you will see a stone marker where soldiers from Sullivan's March were killed during the Revolutionary War.
For all the hundreds of times in the 80s and 90s I drove up and down Giants Despair I never knew this was here right off the side of Laurel Run Rd - my family had mentioned "the old town of Laurel Run" (my great grandparents lived in Ashley) but no one ever mentioned ongoing mine fire or anything - whereas Centralia constantly made the news all throughout the 70s and 80s and even into the 90s as people were moved out and the town relocated. Fascinating!
Even today people who live within walking distance have no idea this is going on.
Back in the 80s I participated in the Giants Despair Hillclimb and never knew about the fire. Will note that the spectators at what is known as the Devil's Elbow weren't always well behaved, and would sometimes affect the drivers with their shenanigans. Possibly due to smoke inhalation causing their behavior?
@@JPVideos81trust me they do. I lived in Georgetown my whole life. Everyone there is elderly and worked in those mines.
They talked about Centralia in school in NC in the '70s. I learned about this one today. Thanks.
Great capture of what danger that lurks below. The steam tho to bad it don't have use. Thank you for sharing ❤️💯
Grew up in North Jersey (born ‘78), and spent quite a bit of time around the Poconos, on out to Lebanon or so. Heard about Centralia about 2000 or so, and went there once. Never had heard of Laurel Run until this video. And I love learning as much as local history and folklore as possible Moved to FL in ‘02 and have been learning about down here ever since.
It's hard to believe that there is fire that's still burning in the ground. Those are some very amazing shots you got of the area Jay.
There used to be a place where you can see the open mine burning in the sixties in this area but that may have bull dozed thanks JP and RJ awesome video ex
my mother grew up in the 60s and 70s in one of the last houses left on northampton street...always fascinated by the history
I have family in Shamokin which is a few miles away from Centralia. Been traveling through there since I was a baby. Literally watched the town disappear over the last 40 years. Interesting that there are more underground fires in Pa that aren’t really known about. Thx!
Really enjoyed this video. I wonder if the difference between the two fires is that Centralia was completely within the age of television and so the images caught people's attention. This fire was getting going with WW I and the Spanish Flu being top of the news. By the time television came along, this was old news. The fifty year old fire isn't as big of a story as the new mine fire.
That's an interesting perspective and could be possibly true.
This was awesome video. Been to Centralia. This horrible that they don't teach this stuff in history. We home school our son. We take him to alot of stuff to see that was never taught him. Keep up the great work bud!!!!
Great video. It brought back many memories. My dad was born and raised in Laurel Run. Every day he took me and my sister to my grandfather's house. That was in the late 50's. It was common to see the steam coming out of the crevices. I knew the story of the mine fire since i was little. We walked those woods daily, being careful where we stepped. I just had my little granddaughter up there 2 days ago. You did a great job .
Sad to think there was a town here .....but its all gone .....roads to no where now. The drone Footage was amazing !! And I really liked the pictures of the town from the past that was really something !! Great video as always !! 👍👍
Ty!
It amazing how nature will repair itself & reclaim the land...
Agreed
Here in Germany, if one is interested, he may come across some documentaries about Centralia on TV. Had the impression, Centralia was the only one, Sorry. You see, your channel even educates good old Europe 😉Greetings from Bavaria and keep continuing your good work
Hi Jay. I hadn't heard of this mine fire until now. Hope you are doing great.
Saw ya in the premiere. Thanks for stopping by 😊
Your welcome. I like all your videos. I find them interesting.
Very good story. Hadn’t heard of this one.
I have heard of an underground fire near Carbondale, not sure if it still burns, but this is definitely cool to learn about thanks for sharing
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Hello JP great video thank you for bringing us along on the journey it's crazy to think that there's fire burning underground there also thought The blooper was really funny stay safe out there love from upstate New York
Grew up in Pittsburgh and remember taking a field trip to the mine bureau in Oakland, where they talked about Laurel Run and Centrala Fires, and several local mine collapes. This was back in the 70s
Thank you for introducing us to this amazing place!! It’s not Centralia, but it’s super cool anyway!! Thank you RJ and JP for doing the dirty work!! 👍♥️♥️
Centralia is known world wide, but this place has much more evidence that can be seen to this day. Thanks for watching
I'm from the uk, and only vaguely familiar with the concept of a mine fire. I think the first time I heard of it I thought shit that would be a disaster, but didn't know any were actually burning in the world. Kinda fascinating.
Good video. It would be interesting to do a survey of the area with a survey grade GPS and thermometer to capture the locations and temperatures of each vent/fissure. Those data could be used to generate a map of (interpolated) hot spot areas using a GIS platform and spatial analysis tools. It'd be interesting to use LIDAR data to generate a current topographic map and compare it with previous, older topographic elevation data to determine if there is a correlation between the hot spots and subsidence caused by the fire. Thanks for posting.
I live 10 minutes from there. When I was a kid, I used to ride my dirt bikes there all the time. Those water tanks were made out of wood originally. At one time the steam was coming out right on the road. It just keeps moving along to different spots. It may never go out.
That is weird - as I have never heard of this one either. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I had heard about this one. I think I learned about it from another TH-camr a few years ago. This video is great. Love the drone shots and the maps from the 1950s and the current ones. Great production on this. You guys stay safe and warm.
Good old' Giants despair!
Stunning footage JP
For what it's worth I think you do a great job. I've learned a lot watching your videos.
Thank you for a job well done!
Thanks
I seem to remember Laurel Run was mentioned in the news reports from Centralia fire reports.
I just learned about it watching this video. Thanks. I had heard of Centralia many yrs ago. I’m 66 yrs old.
I've been there once in the early 2010s. I discovered it while researching Centralia and other mine fires. It's really interesting. There's also a finger of fire that passed under the interstate at one time and there signs in the area along the interstate to be aware of fog (smoke) from the fire. I find mine fires fascinating and I found it more interesting than Centralia even. I've also visited the Olyphant mine fire too, up in the Scranton/Carbondale area. Not much to see in the way of steam up there though.
Thanks for checking out the video
Very aware of the fire, lived next to the Kmart a few miles away. Never knew that those living in Georgetown may have been evacuated and homes demolished. There was a CNJ rail line next or very close to the LCTA bus stop. I remember it in the 70s. Did some research said there was a very bad train crash I believe in 65. Was very young don't remember. Fantastic footage and narration, great job, enjoyed much.
Ty for watching and enjoying my take on this disaster.
I had a relative shot by a cop on that railroad. Around 1920's I believe.
These old mine fires fascinate me. The drone shots and the music were beautiful. I have never heard of this fire but I have heard of the other one. Reader's Digest also did an article on it a few years ago. Those fissures kinda remind me of volcanic activity or a sleeping dragon under ground. I really enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you for taking me along although it looked cold out there.
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Missed the stream, watched the replay. That state forest has alot of good backpacking its been on my radar for awhile, now I gotta go!
Never heard of this place, before. About 15 years ago, I had the opportunity to wander through the long-gone town of Centralia with the former postmaster of the town. He filled me in on the background of the area, but we never discussed Laurel Run.
Centralia is just a sad story all around, but I find this one more fascinating.
great video 🔥😮👍
Thanks Brian
JP. I hope you're being extra cautious out there. Toxic gasses come from those mine fires. I think it's safe to say, if it's burning those gasses are present.
I just wrote the same thing as I didn't see your comment... must have been thinking the same thing. Great minds think alike, right? Lol.
There is also one that has been burning in Colorado near Glenwood springs, that my dad would tell us about, He lived there, I think since the mid to late 1920's
I’ve never heard about this one, but I’ve kind of grown up with Centralia. I’ve driven through. There a few times. It’s eerie.
Check out my latest Centralia revist from last week.
1st time I’ve ever heard about this fire. I have been to Centralia multiple times and have even been to Wilkes-Barre but never heard about this burning town in Laurel Run. Thank you.
It's worth a stop to check out
Thank you guys, very informative.
Wow I’ve never heard of this town burning. I’ve definitely heard of Centralia fire bc of the video you did on it a while back. It’s interesting that it was easier to demolish an entire town than put out a fire. Great video 😊
Back then too, they didn't have precise locations and the necessary equipment to find out exactly where the fire was and which direction it was heading. Lots of speculation can lead to costly mistakes. As Anthracite mentioned, it was made more financial sense to be done with the town, especially after the failed attempts of extinguishing the fire.
Wow! Looks like a really dangerous place for kids to grow up/play.
I've heard of both fires years ago, but I cannot date it any further back than the 1990s. I'm a railfan and model railroader with an interest in the roads that hauled Anthracite coal, so the mine fires came up in the history of the mines.
I actually knew of this mine fire in Laurel Run, BEFORE I knew of the one in Centralia, I'm from Mountain Top, and I've actually walked around up there years ago.
Thanks Jason for this awesome video and info.
I appreciate that Russ
@@JPVideos81 You always make these adventures so enjoyable👍
Yes I knew about this one since childhood (1980's). I live on the other side of the valley from this site. I remember seeing steam coming out on both sides of Northampton Street 20+ years ago.
I'm sure steam was visible for miles back then.
Thank you for your history lessons!
Wow ....How far is Laurel Run from Centralia .?.
Roughly 45 minutes
Very far it's in Wilkes Barre Twp. I lived 2 miles away from there. I checked the distance about 55 miles, I thought it was further
Centralia is the only one in Pennsylvania I knew of, in fact it used to be a thriving town not very long ago, will be interesting to see! I'll be here...
I heard of a couple others, but this one is new to me even though it's one of the oldest burning ones in this area.
I'd only Heard of Centralia about 4 yrs. ago, and Watched the Documentary Vid.
It was so Very Sad, and seemed so Crazy.
Am only learning of This Place from U, now!
Thanks!
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Just watched your video again JP and it's just full of great history! I just keep learning from your videos! I enjoyed this so much! Fun blooper too! lol So awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for watching AGAIN haha.
Lived in PA my entire life (64 years) and the only mine fire I've ever heard of is Centralia.
Yup, this was a new one for me! Thanks for such a cool explore. Crazy to think that's been burning for over 100 years!!
Apparently there's over a dozen more actively burning. Strange how something historic & unfortunate from over 100yrs ago wasn't widely mentioned. Thanks for stopping by Jennifer
@@JPVideos81 right! Hope maybe this becomes a series of sort. Would love to see more about these!
Interesting! I’d never heard of this town
Just discovered your channel and I love those kinda' obscure history detectives. Great stuff/vid and I hope to see more. Thanks for sharing!
If you like mining stuff check out my mining playlist.
Great Video Jp thanks again for sharing some good information about the underground mine fire for us love the video.
Another piece of Pennsylvania history that many didnt know about. It was my pleasure to share it.
Thank you, was not aware of this, know about Centralia but not this one.
I've known and watched a lot of footage including a documentary about the Centralia fire, but never know there was another.
I think what made centralia so well known was that it happened more recently and the homes were vacated much later. I think it was larger as well.
Plus the fact a young boy almost fell into a giant sinkhole. Apparently there's over a dozen active mine fires currently burning. Thanks for checking out the video.
Fabulous coverage as usual !!!
There are many former towns that were evacuated and razed because of coal mine fires across the Appalachians and coal areas. There has been many suspicions that some fires were possibly started by the mining companies to validate removing the towns to strip mine coal and the towns were in the way.
I grew up in Hawley pa that is whear my aunts live and my uncle's and my counsin and grandparents lived and great parents lived also jp and Jr keep up the great work and videos coming stay warm be good drive safely please buckle up and safe travels happy holidays to you and yours from the zentgraph family here in med ford Oregon ok
You are right. I know about Centralia but not Laurel Run fires.
Used to live in the Shamokin area and loved it,the sights,the history and the people,really enjoy all of your videos,takes me back to what I definitely miss now living in Michigan,keep up the great work and travel safe! Happy Holidays!
Just watching this on another channel and offered more which I refused and this comes up! And i thought OK then, And then i recognised your voice! So i will definitely watch it
My husband grew up in this area and scrambled around here as a boy. This was 50+ years ago!
Enjoyed the video and chat very much .great job. .(..Looking forward to your meetup video ) .....Loved the "blooper " too ..🤣
Good thing that new ride was a freebie lol
Fyi JP, ensure you are upwind and have a 4 sensor Gass monitor clipped on mid chest if your going to explore stacks of smoke and other areas that have potential air/gass hazards. If not for yourself then do it for people that join you... some gasses kill so fast that spending time to save someone will cause the rescuer to die as well. Most of the good monitors will have multiple types of alarms (sound, visual, and physical via vibrations).
I loved the intro! Nice editing and music choice.
I loved the old image comparison to show nature's over growth and drone work.
Love the explanations of what you find as you find it, great little nugets of knowledge.
I still can't believe you passed up that TV you found! Would have made an interesting talking point at any gathering!. Lol.
Thank you for doing this, besafe, and enjoy the outside!
Thank you..never heard of the place..Pa has been through alot..
i was born in reading pa and moved to florida when i was 15 and never heard about the mine fire in laurel run but know about centralia
Hello JP what great video, you asked if anyone else has heard of laurel run mine fire. Well yes some years back I was doing some research on a mine fire over here in Ohio in the little town of New Straitsville which has been burning since 1884, Laurel Run popped up in the results as did Centralia and a few others. I just didn't know where in Pennsylvania Laurel Run was. Thanks
Looks like a good test area for some bunker busters
It’s a shame all that coL being burned and wasted. Wish it could be put out. Yeah I’ve heard of it from other channels. Great video
Thanks for checking out the video
It’s not odd that people are unaware of this mine fire. It was so long ago, it is lost in time.
I’ve lived in PA my whole life and I never knew about this one. Funny thing is I’m a member of a railroad club and the live steamer we have has “Laurel Run” on the tender.
Incredible how few people know about this
Great video, thank you !😊
I appreciate you looking into what was in that box. Unfortunately some sickos like to take animals into the woods to let them slowly die of starvation and exposure and leave them in boxes, crates, cages bags and totes. Thank You again for clearing it.
I’m in Canada. I have heard of of the Centalia fire for many years, but never this fire.
Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. Never heard of this fire. Centralia, yes.
Wow, very interesting! I wasn't aware that there was another still burning mine fire. It's obvious it IS still burning although officials deny that!
Funny how officials think people will believe anything they say.
Yay, a shenanigan!! 😂💙😂
No I’ve never heard of this mine fire. I’d never known about Centralia until you and Adam did those videos. Both of them are interesting!! Thanks!! 💖💙💖💙💖💙
Puts a new twist on the term "geothermal".
I actually live within what is about a 5 or 6 mile mile radius that is just a massive abundant anthracite coal area forever with areas still actively mined today. its shelf coal recovery mining out in 3 nearby stone quarries that I have personally been part of the coal mining recovery during the last decade as part of the hauling process transporting the raw coal (coke) to a nearby breaker, Hudson Anthracite in Jankins Township Pa.. I have recovered coal from actual mine fires still burning today in several other area with former local construction company in an attempt to remove the still in unburned coal around the mine fire areas off of new Rt. 6 Casey Highway.. I believe that project is still going on today.
Great video..... drove buy that atea alot growing up...also more in the area...larksville mtn and courtdale mine fire....From what my dad told one in plains where they built the new school ...in that area
Thanks for checking it out
I from Latrobe Pa heard of Laurel Run but not the mine fire that's crazy
There is a mine burning where I live for decades, I was kid when the disaster happened. Lots of men died. We used to go on top and party when we were older teens and young adults. We called it the moon.. Pockets of smoke rose around us.
Very cool! Never heard of this one and funny thing is I was up there in the Spring, Got a pic of their firehouse, I remember seeing smoke/steam but never thought anything of it like Centralia!
Wow I had no idea, that there were two towns. I'm planning on going to Centralia maybe next March or April , I want to metal detect there . Maybe laurel run might be better .those old pop tops and other metal you found are from someone metal detecting and leaving unwanted stuff. Great video.
This area is far more interesting than Centralia
The only mine fire I have heard about before hearing about the ones today was Carbondale PA.
Woah 😳 🔥
Interesting to sample the venting gas to test if it’s steam or if there are combustion products and even partial combustion products. If there’s town gas coming out then that would be conclusive of fire. Carbon monoxide would be present from oxygen starved incomplete combustion.
Nope! Hadnt heard of it but really enjoyed this video!