The Longest Fires in History: Reader’s Suggestions
Last month we reported that a fire at an abandoned recycling centre had been extinguished after an extraordinary seven months. We asked for your suggestions on the longest-running fires, and you responded en masse.
Here’s our roundup of four of the longest burning fires in human history as nominated by you. We can’t say they are the four longest burning fires, but they’re right up there!
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The Longest Fires in History: Reader’s Suggestions
Last month we reported that a fire at an abandoned recycling centre had been extinguished after an extraordinary seven months. […]
Robert Ratcliff
IFSEC Insider | Security and Fire News and Resources 
The Door to Hell is one of those industrial accidents that just makes you shake your head and wonder what they were thinking. A hole opens up and swallows your gas rig so you get even by lighting the pocket of gas under it on fire. It’s almost like the climax to a horror movie but this one is still going.
Another longest burning fire of the world is Devil’s Oven. This is a still-burning century-old mine fire, set during a manual labor dispute in 1884. A huge effort by the Federal government to extinguish the fire in the 1930s proved useless. The fire has moved away from New Straits Ville and is now increasing under Ohio’s 233,000 acre Wayne National Forest.
According to my knowledge there is mountain named burning mountain or Mount Wingen near Sydney Australia which is presumed to be burning for almost 5000 years. I donot know its authenticity but its a coal deposit under the ground and its been burning underneath. The locals are witnessed to that and claimed that its burning since many generations. ?????