The Tampa International Airport is located 9 miles northwest of downtown Tampa. The Marriott Tampa Airport Hotel is located in the Tampa Airport. Additional hotels are about 1 mile away.
Not to be confused with 1947 Centralia mine disaster. The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States since at least May 27, 1962. The fire is suspected to be from deliberate burning of trash in a former strip mine, igniting a coal seam.
As part of the agreement, TransAlta, starting in 2013, will add new air-pollution-control technology at its coal-burning power plant in Centralia. After years of hard-fought negotiations, Gov. Chris Gregoire and the owners of the state's dirtiest power plant have reached agreement to stop burning coal.