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Woman's Shorts Catch Fire When Beach Rocks Spontaneously Combust in Pocket

You read that right: Rocks collected by a woman and her kids at an Orange County beach somehow combusted inside her cargo shorts. [ more › ]
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Scientists Don't Know Why Rocks Spontaneously Combusted in Woman's Cargo Shorts

United States / Los Angeles : LAist (12 months ago)

Scientists still aren't completely sure why the rocks a San Clemente woman picked up off the beach spontaneously ignited in her cargo shorts last weekend. Lyn Hiner, 43, and her children picked up stones streaked with orange from Sa... Read Post

Scientists puzzled by rocks that ignited in O.C. woman's pocket

United States / Los Angeles : L.A. Now (last year)

The case of an Orange County woman's cargo shorts igniting from rocks collected at San Onofre State Beach puzzled scientists who said that chemicals that would combust in that way aren't likely to be found on a beach. Read Post

O.C. woman burned as beach rocks catch fire in her pocket

United States / Los Angeles : L.A. Now (last year)

A woman was burned on an Orange County beach last weekend after rocks in her pocket spontaneously combusted, apparently by friction, Orange County fire authorities told KABC-TV Read Post


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