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Pentagon to review report blaming JBER F-22 pilot for crash
Completed imaging project lets Web browsers 'soar' over Alaska coast
Video: NOAA puts Pribilof Islands documentary online
New encyclopedia of Tlingit language baffles Sitka elders
UAF student boycott kills popular intramural sport for semester
Published: August 11th, 2009 10:02 AM
Last Modified: August 11th, 2009 10:03 AM
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: A wildfire that threatened a subdivision of about 20 homes near Anderson last week was caused by a burning underground coal seam, not a lightning strike as fire officials first suspected. ... A coal seam fire is the underground smoldering of a coal deposit that creeps along cracks in geologic coal structures. They often are originally started by lightning, grass or forest fires and can continue to smolder underground after surface fires have been extinguished, sometimes for many years.
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