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Author DeKok, David.

Title Unseen danger : a tragedy of people, government, and the Centralia Mine fire / by David DeKok.

Publication Info. San Jose [Calif.] : ToExcel, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  TN315 .D45 2000    Available  ---
Description xiv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A Bad Day -- Men and Resources -- Council's Fire -- Natural Forces -- Missed Opportunities -- Scranton's Grand Plan -- Too Long a Wait -- Sideshow -- In the Fire's Grasp -- Lonely Battle -- Awakening -- Infighting -- Increasing Danger -- Scattered Leaves -- The Big Picture -- Fateful Tumble -- Watt and Thornburgh -- Thornburgh in Centralia -- Organizing the Resistance -- Fire in the Night -- On the Road -- The Year of the Scream -- Unity Day -- Victory -- The Lessons of Centralia.
Subject Mine fires.
Mine fires.
Mine gases.
Mine gases.
Coal mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- Centralia.
Coal mines and mining.
Pennsylvania -- Centralia.
Centralia (Pa.) -- History.
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