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Utah is battling an underground blaze in the abandoned mines near Kenilworth.
Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah.
Roman Vega, director of the Helper Museum, has coordinated with DOGM officials to fight an underground fire in the historic Kenilworth mine system. Smoke escaping from a fissure near the closed mine. Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah.
The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth mine, may have been smoldering for a century, or it may have been the product of spontaneous combustion.
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