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Ventura County Hot Spot Puzzles Experts - 812 Degrees!

August 4, 2008

A patch of land in Ventura County’s Los Padres Forest where the ground heated up to 812 degrees Friday continues to puzzle firefighters and geologists after a month and a half of monitoring.

“It’s a thermal anomaly,” said Ron Oatman, spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department.

Firefighters first responded to the hot spot a month and a half ago, Oatman said. There were no visible flames, but they created a containment line about 2 feet wide and monitored the two-acre plot. Because the smoke was not going away, the containment line was widened to about 30 feet Friday, he said.

The firefighters and geologists who surveyed the area in Sespe Oil Field on Friday are uncertain what’s causing the heat, but they have some theories.

The area is considered an active landslide that in the last 60 years has moved and trapped hydrocarbons, found in petroleum products, natural gas and coal, some several hundred feet deep, Oatman said. After it dried out, the earth began to crack and oxygen crept in, causing “some sort of combustion,” he said.

This same land area has recorded high heat about five or six times since 1987 and has always been dubbed a “natural phenomenon,” Oatman said.

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