Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "A Brief History of: The Centralia Mine Fire (Short Documentary)" video.

  1. Call fires are incredibly hard to extinguish. Coal stocks ate power plants steel mills etc have to be carefully managed. Pouring on water often makes it worse as the violent conditions ate the seat of the fire crank the water and the hydrogen/oxygen fed the fire. There is evidence that Titanic was steaming so fast though the ice fields because her stokers were digging out a bunker fire. Heat had already buckled the bulkheads which no doubt cause the ship to sink faster than expected. I worked on a coal fire powered plant where we had a nasty bunker fire. The coal was run though the mills, but ash and heat from the fire cause it to hang up in the bunker. Shifting it with long steel poles from above needed breathing apparatus and fire protection teams on hand as letting in air could lead to a sudden flare-up.
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