Field guide No. 509

In a wet industrial yard, a flame burns from a pipe in the ground and turns, partway up, into a spout of clear splashing water. It puts itself out on the way down.

Flame becomes water

Its own fire brigade.

In a wet industrial yard, a flame burns from a pipe in the ground and turns, partway up, into a spout of clear splashing water. It puts itself out on the way down.

Field noteFire and water usually end each other. Here one simply carries on as the other, halfway up the same spout.

Specimen
No. 509
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Where it doesn’t exist
A wet industrial yard.
Nearest existing relative
A gas flare.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics