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.
Mossie was pinged (pung?) along with everyone else on my ping list, so hopefully, he will wander in shortly with some wonderful tale about the places he’s been in his absence or the work the slave masters had him doing.
What, do they sound like enraged Cape buffalo?
And yes, God is VERY Good!
It must be warm, there by the house. Mountain kitty likes the view.
You have a very positive attitude about your misfortune, Thomas.
Murphy’s Law is not normally so charitable and forgiving.
Does this mean I have to buy a lava lamp?
Mossie => MOOSIE!
*sheesh*
WAKE UP!!!
You never know what you’ll attract when you put food on the porch!
I hope you’re feeling better today. I’m off to Day Camp swim tests in a few minutes, with Sally, Vlad, and whichever Arnett boy gets in the van when I stop at their house. I have enough trouble keeping track of my own kids!
When I’m with the Cub Scouts, I’ll point at a kid and say, “You, Turner brother! Come help with this table.” “You, Mullins brother! Get down from there!” Cracks the parents up.
Pugs’ snorts sound like someone snoring VERY loudly, and they will do it when they are excited or apprehensive or want your attention. And they do, indeed, snore.
But they are such fun little dogs.
My BP is coming down, which I knew it would, but I will have to check it again in a couple of hours. I’m NOT taking any more of that med!
No one called back last night by 1900, so I’m thinking it will be Monday. A weekend, y’know, in an HMO.
If I had enough money left, I would send for the Carditone, but it’s $35 a bottle and that’s more than I have left. I DO have washing money, and that’s a big help! Two rolls of quarters should get me through several weeks, now that I have to wash more often.
It’s 80 degrees and the sky is just beginning to get light. But the humidity is 35%. It should dry out after the sun comes up, but there is no wind, and I didn’t see any storms to the south to mess up my breathing.
Galileo had one. You've already got a replica of his "lava lamp".
“Flaming hawk”....is that a new code word for militant homosexuals?
Sorry, I just can’t keep up with all the newspeak labels.
Galileo’s runs on air temperature.
Lava lamps run on electricity, and I would need a space on a flat surface near an electrical outlet to put it. Not gonna happen.
Or just precariously balance it on a handrail like Humpty Dumpty and let it run on solar energy.
There is only one thing I have that runs on solar energy...my Good Luck Kitty that keeps waving in the luck. In small increments. Minutely — small.
That would be scary. That thing could break the glass quite easily I bet.
Yeah, good idea. Most of us aren't prepared to have luck come in in large amounts the way it did for ThomasThomas.
Where are the ice giants?
Where is Doggerland?
Where is Beringea?
But seriously folks, I think we should defund poverty.
I agree 100%! Hi, Nully!
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