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.
He wants to be an a-hole.
My daughter could get along in Russian and French. She picked up Spanish in about 3 months, although she didn’t get really good at it until she went to the Foundation.
Will do. Never made the connection.
I can’t access your daughters web page. I’m sure she’s not sloth but a chip off her dad’s block. Dad must be very proud of her.
He’s taking modeling jobs behind your back
Cats are sneaky. Especially when they are named after Roman gods. They Rome all over,
*snerk!*
It’s OK! I hope I didn’t embarrass you!
You are such an awesome FReeper!
I used to like the way Uncle Duke described it. Cats are "an especially tricky people."
Of course, Uncle Duke was talking about the Chinese under Mao, but I think he'd have said it of cats as well.
BTW: I don’t know if you’ve seen Louis CK’s “Everything’s great and nobody’s happy” routine, but my daughter took a printing camera down to Colombia this time so she could give photos to the kids in Planeterica who would never have access to see her blog on tumblr. The Pastor from Medellin was looking at the prints and saying, “Can’t you get better quality?”
I said, “When was the last time he saw a printing camera??? Jut getting the prints right away without having to bring a printer isn’t good enough???
Is a printing camera like a Polaroid?
Actually, Polaroid made the one she had. But it’s not using film that processes itself, it’s using thermal paper. The camera actually holds about 10 sheets and prints the image. The technology is called ZINK for Zero Ink.
Oh, very interesting. I had no idea there was such a thing.
It was the first I heard of it, too.
I imagine the photos fade, but for many of these kids it may be the only picture they get - especially of this age.
It was very nice of your daughter to do that.
I don’t know what I did, but whatever it was, I can’t get IE to become my SE. It is frustrating because I need familiar screens to help me navigate.
Any hints?
Message in FReepmail.
Did some digging and lurking.
I’m not a big fan of IE. Do you mean it doesn’t search the correct search engine when you type search text in the address window? Or do you mean it’s not the default when you click a URL from somewhere else but inside the browser?
That’s my problem. I was ligging and durking.
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