“…In major coal producing countries, such as China, the United States, Australia and India, coal fire disasters are very common and are considered as a global disaster problem (Havva, 2007;James et al, 2009;Kong et al, 2017;Mohalik et al, 2017;Parsa et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018;Yang and Qiu, 2019). More than 95% of Chinese collieries perform underground coal mining, in which fire accidents due to spontaneous coal combustion account for more than 90% of the total number of mine fires (Deng et al, 2008;Fan et al, 2020Fan et al, , 2019.…”