Coal fires are a pretty common thing all over the world, but one town in Colorado has it’s fair share. There are easily 25 burning fires within 10 miles of New Castle, CO. One of them, has been burning since 1896 when the Vulcan Mine exploded, killing 49 men.

Despite that, the Vulcan was reopened a few years later, until another explosion and fire in 1913 that killed another 37 men. Sadly, that didn’t deter people from using the mine and more died during WWI, when they were mining for sulphur.

Now, it just burns alone.