Description
First published in 1986, Slow Burn chronicles Centralia’s demise from an underground coal mine fire and depicts a unique epic event in Pennsylvania history, representing the confluence of environmental, scientific, bureaucratic, and emotional tragedies. As an award-winning photojournalist, Jacobs moved into a space in Centralia’s have an effect on zone in 1983 to document in photographs and interviews the tip stages of the tiny anthracite coal the city’s unsuccessful fight to unravel the intractable problems that started with the mine fire in 1962 and culminated within the razing of the city by the government.