Underground 'zombie fires' burn as Siberian temperatures fall to 75 degrees below zero

DELYANKIR, Russia (KXAN) — The three-person population of Delyankir, Russia, recently experienced some of the coldest temperatures on Earth this past Tuesday.
The thermometer fell to a temperature of 75 degrees below zero, the coldest the area has been since January 2014. Despite the frigid cold, below the freezing ice and snowy landscape lies a sustained fire known as a "zombie fire."Zombie fires occur when a fire from a previous year smolders underground in carbon-rich peat (organic fuel