Rocks found on OC beach catch fire (KTLA News)
I question her veracity. After all, her pants were on fire.
/johnny
Had to be phosphorus.
Some forms ignite at around body temperature.
Maybe piezoelectric quartz caused a little spark and ignited the fine lint in her pocket?
White Phosphorus people: San Clemente is at the northern edge of Camp Pendleton. All sorts of miltary smoke projectiles use WP to make fluffy white Phosphorus pentoxide smoke. If it lands in water (i.e., ocean f'rinstance) it quenches the flame. When the "rock" comes out of the water and the crust cracks to allow oxygen to reach the WP, she starts burning.
I found a 25 pound WP bomb washed up on the beach a few mile south of San Clemente a few years ago (a Navy smoke float).
WP burns are not a all funny and I have see some horrific stuff during my career..
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Tomorrow headline: Police arrest OC mother for possession of dangerous substance
My guess is there was a beach party the night before, someone threw some road flares on the fire, where there were rocks, someone else peed the fire out before the flares finished burning leaving melted flare goop on the rocks. The kids found the rocks covered with pretty flare goop, they dried out, mom ‘struck’ them in her pocket, and viola, chemistry.