A house in the northern part of the state of California was damaged and even burnt to the ground this weekend, and there are some chances that a meteor crashing on the surface of the Earth is to blame. Firefighters from Nevada County’s Penn Valley Fire Department had to deal with the fire and extinguish it after a few hours of struggle, according to Toofab.
The home of Dustin Procita was the one engulfed by flames until the firefighters managed to get rid of the blaze. Considering that a big noise resembling a ‘bang’ was heard before the house was seen in flames, there you have one reason to believe that a meteor was to blame.
Here’s what Procita said for KCRA:
I heard a big bang,
I started to smell smoke. I went onto my porch and it was completely engulfed in flames.
A ball of light in the sky was seen by residents in the area around the same time the fire started to hit. The same person told the same publication mentioned above:
They said it was a meteor,
I’ve always watched meteor showers and stuff as a kid, but I definitely didn’t look forward to them landing in my yard or through my roof. I did not see what it was, but from everybody I talked to — was a flaming ball falling from the sky, landed in that general area.
Unfortunately, it is indeed possible that a meteor could be to blame for the fire. Most of these space rocks are disintegrated in the atmosphere due to air friction combined with their intense speed. But if some of them are too big to be destroyed completely, parts of the space rocks can make it out to the surface intact.
Just a few days ago, we also wrote about a huge fireball zapping above California. It might be the same one destroying the house.
