Believe it or not, right now, the “hottest” spot in Southern California is someplace outside Fillmore in Ventura County, but unless you’re a thermogeologist, it’s probably no place you’d want to visit.
Experts are reportedly still baffled over the “thermal anomaly” that caused ground temperatures on a small patch of terrain to soar to more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit, sparking a three-acre brush fire. Even now, several weeks after the incident, temperatures remain high enough to melt the rubber off the sneakers of anyone who tries to get too close.
Whatever the cause, it seems we can rule out space aliens, the CIA, Bigfoot, global warming and all the other usual suspects behind weird natural phenomena. The leading theory is that some type of hydrocarbon caught fire deep below the surface and is seeping up through fissures in the earth.
