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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATELINE: SIMI VALLEY, CA – 02:47 AM PST

MATRIX GLITCH: All 911 Calls to Report Simi Valley Fire Were Dialed from The Same “Dead” Burner Phone

Fire officials are baffled and the FBI has been called in after an investigation into the ignition of the massive Simi Valley brush fire took a turn into the uncanny.

While the official cause of the blaze remains under investigation, our analysis of the emergency dispatch logs has revealed a chilling data anomaly. Every single one of the first 17 911 calls reporting the smoke and flames were placed from the same mobile device.

The phone? A cheap, prepaid burner—purchased with cash in Van Nuys… in 2008. The number was inactive. It had been officially disconnected by the carrier for over a decade.

“It’s not just that the phone is dead,” a source within the dispatch center told us. “It’s that these calls came from five different cell towers, spanning 8 miles in less than 4 minutes. There is no physical way for a single, stationary device to do that unless the signal itself is… bifurcating.”

Worst of all? The device’s last known GPS ping—an hour before the first smoke was sighted—places it not on a road or a trail, but directly in the center of the dry lake bed at the heart of the burn zone. A location that has been devoid of cellular infrastructure for 20 years.

Residents are being evacuated, but they’re also asking the question no one in the Emergency Operations Center wants to answer: Was the fire started by a person, or by a signal from a phone that should not exist?