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  • Ventura County hot spot puzzles experts

    08/04/2008 10:31:45 PM PDT · by americanophile · 32 replies · 629+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | August 5, 2008 | Joanna Lin
    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...