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t. I Austin American-Statesman D1 19-year-old mine fire burning hotter We're the printing CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) A new hot spot has been discovered in the mine fire that has been burning beneath this small town for 19 years, but residents say that's nothing compared to their slow burn. "Disgusted. Everybody's disgusted," Says Joan Girolaml, angry that a May 19 cry for help seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

Residents voted 434-204 in a non-binding referendum to move the entire town, if that's what it takes, to allow the fire to be dug up and extinguished. But no government agency has stepped forward to say how it might be done. And meanwhile, the state and the federal gov-erment say there is a misunderstanding over an agreement about possible interim measures. Adding to the anxiety was a report of a new "hot spot" 1,400 degrees found inside a cracked, smoking rock about a half-mile outside of town. State mining official James Shober said federal workers measured the temperature Thursday.

If accurate, it would be one of the highest readings in the history of the fire. Girolaml, a founder of Concerned Citizens Against the Centralia Mine Fire, said the town's 1,100 residents also are boiling over the Interior Department's insistence that the fire is not its problem, and over the federal government's low purchase offers for homes in the fire's path. The fire has burned in a maze of abandoned anthracite tunnels beneath the town since 1962, emitting deadly gases and opening steaming holes. "Everything's at a standstill. It's like somebody put the brakes on," said borough council vice president Bob Lazarski said, criticizing the state for failing "to fight for Centralia with the federal government." "We don't have at the present time any plans to revise what we originally inten-jded," to leave the fire alone and move threatened families on an emergency basis, said Interior Department spokesman Ed Essertier.

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