According to Medline Plus, neonatal respiratory distress has the following signs and symptoms: brief pauses when breathing, blue color to the babyâs skin, decrease in output of urine, breathing movements that are unusual such as drawing in the chest muscles, grunting and nasal flaring.
The toxic carbon monoxide that flooded the town started an evacuation of the entire population and has left nothing but a barren wasteland in its wake. Home now only to graffiti and occasional daredevil sightseers, Centralia is one of the most deadly places on earth.
Many accepted those offers after a tornado levelled much of the town two years later. By 2009, the town's police force had disbanded and the government was decommissioned, according to Wired. Lawless photographed the town for his book, The Prelude: The Deadliest City in America, in 2015. On his website, the artist described being terrified as he walked through a town where the ground was left thin by subterranean mining shafts.