Coal mine fire is the production of one of the major natural disasters. Mine fire will burn a lot of coal resources and equipment; produce large amounts of hot smoke and harmful gases, seriously endangering the safety of mine workers; often induced by gas and coal dust explosion, and further expand its disastrous. Every year, more than in China mine fire fatal accidents, the mine has brought a great disaster. Coal fires can break a typical case example points us a warning, timely treatment and prevention of fire accidents. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part of the meaning of the mine fire. The second part of the cause of the fire from the classification. The third part of the analysis of examples of lessons learned mine fires.
Key words: mine fire caused fire case of external fire