Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cause of an early morning fire north of San Diego was an electrocuted bird falling from an active power line
A bird carrying a snake in its talons struck power lines north of San Diego, sparking a hillside fire just west of The Merge.
San Diego Police arrived to the location on Dunhill Street near the intersection of Interstates 5 and 805 just before 6 a.m.
Flames were burning very close to businesses including the General Atomics building, officials said.
Officers called in San Diego Fire-Rescue crews who contained the fire within an hour.
Fire officials initially told NBC 7 a bird with a snake in its mouth was electrocuted on a power line and fell to the ground, sparking the fire. A photo released by officials later shows the snake in the hawk's grasp.
"A hawk that hit the high voltage power line, caught fire, and fell to the ground," SD Fire-Rescue spokesperson Lee Swanson said in a written release.
There were no structures damaged and no evacuations ordered.
This area of San Diego is home to many companies in the region's biochemical industry.
Your Midnight looks an awful lot like my Ceirdwyn, weird!
That’s entirely possible. He’s not the brightest of cats.
Not at first.
Got lucky a few times when I near gassed myself.
Something like that.
My sis’ car “Sneakers” was upset that it was raining.
He wanted us to do something about it.
Sounds like Shannon.
Considering all the things my cohort did before age twelve, in today’s climate we’d be arrested by BATFE, DHS, and who knows who else. Came out the other side comparatively unscathed. Well, not counting stiches, broken bones, or mild burns.
LOL, there was one summer my dad yelled at me, “You and your gang of little Frankinsteins!” All of us having some visible stiches at the same time from solo adventures.
I’m off to bed. Nothing has worked for me today.
Yeah.
Kids these days actually are missing out due to government paranoia.
The movie “October Sky”?
Kids would be arrested for amateur rocketry these days.
I’m sorry.
Anoreth tried, at the last minute, to get me to agree to her taking Shannon and leaving the Dog, but I didn’t fall for it.
With ten children from 24 to 3, we’ve had one incident with stitches needed (when Frank ran into the corner of the living room wall) and no broken bones other than my toes on several occasions.
I think a whole host of angels is involved in protecting these children from Physics.
He also tried to dry himself off on everyone afterwards.
But he gets mad if you towel him off.
I love your kitties. So lucky to have three basement kitties. Give each of them a kiss from me.
Thank you for posting. It’s nice to see what your kitty family looks like .
Thanks, Tc...I ate something and then I realized life was not about that, so I’m going to bed.
Tomorrow may be better.
Safe journey, Anoreth! (And Bill, too!)
Hopefully you won’t throw up, like Kathleen.
Just gorgeous.
I want to cuddle them all, and I wouldn’t care about scratches or little nips.
They are all gorgeous,but I want Tootsie,
Now !!!!!!!!
:-)
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Thanks. They’re all getting along pretty well together, too.
Good grief! You’re probably right. I wonder who she killed at the Cat Hotel?
Well, I’m going to keep it under my hat.
Thank you, my friend. Yes, they are quite beautiful.
As you know, Lucas was a Basement Cat, and when he passed, we had only Bobbie and Shadow.
Two cats are just not enough, so we adopted Midnight and Tootsie. They’re doing well.
And we certainly do not mind having Basement Cats. ;-)
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