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.
Located four miles east of Hyden, Kentucky, the mine loaded an average of 1,500 tons of coal per day. Exactly one year prior to the explosion at Hurricane Creek, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act had been signed into law.ynamite, a substance found in the Hurricane Creek mine during the post-blast investigation, was banned by the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. The investigation revealed the mine was an absolute failure enforcing the new safety laws.