Flaming Hawk With Snake in Its Talons Sparks Fire Near La Jolla

NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Jun 9, 2015 | R. Stickney

[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.

[Darksheare]

Worst part of what I had in my head, the dude had a voice like Tiny Tim.

[Gefn]

But no tulips or Miss Vicki.

[Darksheare]

No.
It was weird enough already.

[Not A Snowbird]

Hiya!

I’ve been on a few. We’re heading to Calgary next weekend for a two week trip winding through Washington, Idaho, and Montana. I hope our heat wave breaks before then!

[Covenantor]

SKYNET

As it is above

So it is below

[Gefn]

I remember Aqua Net.

what girls from NJ used in their hair in the latter part of the 80s.

Hurray that hair hasn’t made a comeback!

[Gefn]

Sometimes weird is good.

[Covenantor]

...and disco dudes.

[ArGee]

Be careful tossing off the Terminator story line too easily.

Robot kills man

[Tax-chick]

Kewl!

[Tax-chick]

There used to be an employee at my local Walmart whose name was Acquanetta.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve had those discussions.

[Tax-chick]

Check deposited; teeth clean. Ready to collapse. I feel like that drummer from that one band.

[GeronL]

A tiger! I’m skeered

[Darksheare]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3307005/posts

Would it have worked on that?

[TheOldLady]

LOL! I’m waiting for my hair to make a comeback. I’m thinking maybe four years from now, it may be
grown back enough that I look like a heterosexual woman again instead of a clipped-hair lesbian.

And I really hope that it comes back in curly again. I used to think I liked straight hair, but I really
don’t. I do prefer my hair to be nice and curly. It’s very soft now, almost like the cats’ fur, but I’m
sure that it will toughen up again when it finally grows all the way out.

Ooooh! I’m looking out the dining room windows, and there are several eagles flying around out
there above and through the trees. They’re all over the place, and they’re totally beautiful.

[Covenantor]

Hard to say, as they didn't have a photo. But the archives show that the German robot models were historically controlled by Aquanet and a hair dryer as this historic photo shows.

[Covenantor]

Eagles up! That has to be a good sign.

[Tax-chick]

I hope you get the hair you want. I figure I’ll have to wait for the Resurrection.

In the meantime, I get lots of compliments on my radical-feminist-professor gray spiky ‘do.

[Monkey Face]

Got the truck gassed up and was going to go to Walmart until I saw how late it was and just went to Smith’s (Harris Teeter) to get something for lunch: two pieces of chicken and two onion rings. :o]

Tomorrow, early I will head for Walmart and hope I don’t have to deal with too many Walmartians.

Now, I realize how hungry I am and the fact that I didn’t eat anything since 0500. And I know better than to do that. So now I will take my pills.

And speaking of which, iherb.com tells me the order won’t be here until Monday. *sigh*