It was interesting to read a piece in The Star on 19 Sept 2011 about an underground coal fire. A house owner had to leave his home because of fumes. They had noticed a burning smell and smoke 2 weeks earlier, and the underground fire worsened.
"The fire – known as mine fire – is the underground smouldering of a coal deposit, probably located under Batu Arang, which is a former coal mining town. The last time such a similar incident took place was in 1992, in Kg Melayu, when part of a school building had to be demolished during excavation works to put out the fire."
