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Flaming Hawk With Snake in Its Talons Sparks Fire Near La Jolla
NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, Jun 9, 2015 | R. Stickney

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.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crispycritters; electricity; fire; hawk; koalaoil; lajolla; molassesmiasma; monkeyfacerules; napl; penguinhumor; powerlines; thefirebird; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere
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To: moose07

Yes, you did. I hadn’t noticed how close it was!


3,301 posted on 07/27/2015 3:57:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick

Evening, TC.
The weather has returned to standard specification for a while.
Wind and rain with a cool strong wind. That hot Sun business was just disturbing.
:)


3,302 posted on 07/27/2015 4:07:30 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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To: moose07

Have just eaten a packet of Salt and Vinegar crisps....
My mouth feels like a scale model of the great Salt lake.
Ah yeah ,they where the real McCoy. Lol.


3,303 posted on 07/27/2015 4:58:32 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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To: moose07

Our 5-day forecast shows low 90s with a pretty good chance of storms. We need the rain.


3,304 posted on 07/27/2015 5:13:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick

They all show as potential thunder storms on the application I’m using.
Two huge systems have just missed your position.


3,305 posted on 07/27/2015 5:38:18 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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To: moose07

What is this? The only that would make it better would be kosher label.

3,306 posted on 07/27/2015 6:58:16 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (We try to leave a better planet for our kids but forget about leaving better kids for our planet)
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To: Monkey Face

I count it as a testimony to my better taste that most of the bottles are full.


3,307 posted on 07/27/2015 7:15:40 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (We try to leave a better planet for our kids but forget about leaving better kids for our planet)
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To: ThomasThomas

Vegetarian Ham:

Lamyong Vegetarian Ham is a tasty and convenient vegetarian food ingredient loved by all in the family! Comes in 3 different flavours, Original, “Chicken” and “Bacon”.

Product Code:

AVH1000

Available Sizes:

1kg

Ingredients:

Textured soy protein (44%), water, vegetable oil, whey protein, sugar, wheat flour, salt, vegetarian seasonings, permitted food colouring (E150d)

Contains soybeans, gluten and dairy. May contain traces of nuts and seeds.
Storage:

Keep Frozen -18°c


3,308 posted on 07/27/2015 9:06:47 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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To: moose07

Always wondered what ham was made of... ;-)


3,309 posted on 07/27/2015 10:45:37 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; moose07; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Gefn
Good morning.

Tower, Marmalade One, requesting clearance for take-off.

3,310 posted on 07/28/2015 3:25:45 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: moose07

It didn’t rain on us at all.


3,311 posted on 07/28/2015 3:25:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Covenantor; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...

Today's excessively cute kitteh is from Australia.

3,312 posted on 07/28/2015 3:27:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick

Is it Friday yet?

Drat!

Welp, I’m at the imaging center to get a sonogram of my gallbladder. Exciting stuff, too.


3,313 posted on 07/28/2015 4:59:17 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: ArGee

It’s Tuesday. I’ll be going to Weight Watchers, but first to Walmart.

At least you’re not having a colonoscopy. I hope your gall bladder is okay.


3,314 posted on 07/28/2015 5:01:12 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: moose07

W00t! Go, Moosie!


3,315 posted on 07/28/2015 5:05:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Tax-chick; Covenantor; ArGee; moose07; null and void

Good morning, Undeaders.

Between problems breathing and chest pains yesterday, I folded up shop and bailed out for the duration. I’m sorry I missed a serving of vegetarian ham. That must have been tasty. (Not!)

ArGee, there has been a lot of progress since I had my gallbladder out, (All the women in my family for several generations had to have the surgery) so you may be fairly “lucky” if they find anything. Just finding any stones was a major production. Best wishes on the entire procedure for you!

And morning squee is always good.

This morning, I have an appointment with Fred the Caseworker, and yesterday, I asked my ex-aide/friend for the name of her work and the phone number. She is in management, there, and I know she will see that things are done properly for me.

Now I need some of Nully’s coughie.


3,316 posted on 07/28/2015 5:24:03 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face

It is present and accounted for. Apparently it tried to usurp the place of my liver and was soundly spanked. It is now sulking and my liver is doing the happy dance.

Ultrasounds these days are amazing.


3,317 posted on 07/28/2015 6:47:43 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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To: ArGee

I’m glad you weathered it all OK!

Do they still do surgery? Or do they dissolve them with ultrasound, now?

Ultrasound wasn’t even used on expectant mothers when I had my gallbladder out. Yes, I’m that old! LOL!

Off topic: My finger slipped when I went to add a new contact to my email account, and I deleted all my contacts. Now it seems that Yahoo is unresponsive and I can’t retrieve them. What do I do now? I need them!
*sob*


3,318 posted on 07/28/2015 7:06:11 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: ArGee

PS: Never mind. I managed. My brain is a little wonky today. I have to consciously think of how to spell most words, and some words I don’t even recognize. *sigh*


3,319 posted on 07/28/2015 7:12:11 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I hate spelling errors. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.)
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To: Monkey Face

I don’t have gallstones. I have polyps on my gallbladder. Apparently that’s normal but the Life Insurance Companies won’t insure my life until they’re quite sure mine are the normal sort.


3,320 posted on 07/28/2015 7:32:48 AM PDT by ArGee (Unfortunately, when everything's insane, nothing is.)
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