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A hole opened in Midway, Arkansas, in September, throwing 12-foot-tall frames.
(iStock)For 40 minutes, a small hole in the ground uncontrollably sprayed 12-foot flames before finally stopping. The images of the red-orange flames and the heat of the fire were imbedded in the minds of those who witnessed the scene.
The hole opened on private property in Midway, Arkansas, almost a month ago, on September 17, and still is an obstacle for researchers. People rushed to offer theories about what caused the sudden explosion: was it space junk, meteorites, maybe a gas leak?
So far, none of the guesses has turned out to be correct, said Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass. the Arkansas Democratic Gazette. He also discarded another crazy explanation: Satan.
PHOTO OF THE FIERY BUBBLE THAT STIPULATES 65 FEET IN THE AIR SEEMS THE INTERNET
"As far as the spiritual Satan is concerned, we have discarded that ... He did not go up, he stuck the fork in the ground and opened the hole," joked Pendergrass.
Donald Tucker, chief of the Midway Fire Protection District, said the hole acted "like a chimney," noting that it is particularly suspicious that the fire finally stopped.
"I was drawing air from a lower elevation ... Whatever it is, it burned its fuel and went out," he told the newspaper.
The hole did not open suddenly. It has existed for at least 10 years, according to a landscaper.
"It's something like an old groundhog hole, a burrow or an armadillo," Pendergrass described. "But he's been there a long time."
Geologists examined the hole with a camera and determined it was probably created by an animal because it stretched horizontally before intercepting a nearby drainage ditch, according to a report from the Arkansas Geological Survey.
The Black Hills Energy gas company, which was asked to help inspect the site, confirmed that it did not find any public service lines or leaking fuel lines in the area.
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality also examined several underground fuel storage tanks at Midway to make sure they were sealed.
"Based on the ADEQ inspections, it does not appear that any of these tanks contributed to the fire," the agency said in a statement to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The researchers plan to send soil samples from the burned hole to a laboratory in the hope that they can identify the root of the explosion.
"Soil samples should clarify any possibility of gasoline or anything else coming out of the well or contaminating migratory groundwater, such as gasoline," said Ty Johnson of the Geological Survey.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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