Mysterious 'foam blob' consumes Californian street
A ‘foam blob’ has caused confusion and fascination in equal measure as it slowly consumes a street in Santa Clara, California.
It’s believed the bed of bubbles is fire retardant that has spewed from a hangar at nearby Mineta San Jose International Airport.
Police were on the scene Friday afternoon local time as foam blocked several businesses and completely covered cars in the area, KVTU reported.
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“It just feels like soap, kinda smells like it too,” one local, Blake Harrington, told the station.
He cycled through the river of foam after the police told him he should give it a try.
He ran into a pole when he tried.
“I literally couldn’t seen anything in the middle of it, it was like ten feet tall.”
Emergency crews were baffled about how they might get rid of the foam, which San Jose fire department said was caused by a malfunction of a new hangar’s fire prevention system.
