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.
Pretty much!
I think it’s really cool!
Not only is the screwdriver/tester quite cheap, but you can weld with it and cook hot dogs!
Ugliest kitties I’ve ever seen. :)
My bad. That’s what I get for trying to read without reading glasses...excellent for driving, but not so much for close work. Thanks! I will check them out...
And melt stuff!
The nap made Jake very happy. I think Shannon is still hiding under Tom’s bed, but eventually she’ll come out and realize the dog has gone.
Thanks, looks cute.
LOL! Nice theatrical effects. The take away for the audience is don’t play with your wienie and cheap neon testers in the vicinity of high voltage transformers, but if you do, it ist much besser if you haff a good Cherman tester und maybe a bratwurst.
But my dad gave me similar advice as yours albeit after my experiments with AC house outlets at age ten. Wienies were NOT involved. I did manage to achieve a brief but satisfying arc by using my dad’s treasured small Sears Craftsman insulated screwdriver and somehow bridged the gap of the outlet. Like Toad and the motorcar my wonder at the bright crackling spark and attendant darkness shoved aside the memory of the practical details of the experiment. But, oh the results!
Fifty seven years later that red screwdriver is still in my tool box, one corner missing but with a blob of molten still attached. Some younguns might have learned something from my tales. I suspect their take away was get tid of the evidence and deny, deny, deny.
Jake is like your Umpteenth Kid...it doesn’t take much to keep him happy, a good meal, a warm body to nap on and an occasional outing to kill the feral bunnehs.
Wonderful story! It sounds like something I would have done, had my dad had electronical tools around. He just had carpenterial stuff, and some electrician’s tape.
Having been banned from electrical experimentation, I branched out into chemical peculiarities.
Like, blackpowder and aluminum powder sparkler explosions.
The added bonus being that the backyard was always clear of weeds during that time.
And of everything else.
“and an occasional outing to kill the feral bunnehs.”
*Gasp!*
Are they really that bad over that way?
And wonder what Jake would think of rabbitoids if they existed.
That investigator was talking about how dangerous the cheap screwdriver/ACtester was, but did you get a look at the toys in his workshop?
Godzilla would think he ran into an appropriately-sized bug-zapper if he messed with that guy!
I was in Las Vegas once when it was 110 degrees but they keep those huge casinos so cool. I don’t know how they do it. You don’t even know what time it is in there. It seems like it’s night outside 24 hours a day because there’s no windows and all the lights are on. You can lose total track of time. I remember being in MGM casino on a Friday night and having a good time playing blackjack. I reckoned it was around 2 in the morning when I left there because it was still so crowded and noisy. But it was 6:30 in the morning and the sun was out! So I went and had some eggs and bacon as well as a bloody mary and went back to the tables. That was a strange time.
I expect Jake would be terrified of rabbitoids, unless they fed him and let him take naps on them.
He’s lying next to his bowl eating all the food now. Wouldn’t want him to waste energy by standing up.
Yup. No clocks visible from anywhere in Disneyland/world either.
...with sharp pointy teeth!
It only takes one mistake ...
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