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Posted November 23, 2005 EST
Flaming Bird Sparks SJB Fire
United States (California) -
A week after the official end of the countys fire season, two separate grass fires in San Juan Bautista over the weekend kept firefighters busy as they quickly contained and extinguished the blazes. Just after 12:20pm Saturday, several fire units responded to a blaze at Rocks Road on the north side of Highway 156, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Engineer Jeff Kinoshita. The fire consumed about 15 acres of grass, but no structures were damaged, he said.
Saturday’s fire started after a bird flew into power lines, burst into flames, plummeted to the earth and ignited the dry grass, according to Kinoshita. It was contained within a half-hour and fully extinguished within three hours, he said.
“It was a bird-into-a-power-line type of deal,” Kinoshita said, adding that fires caused by flaming birds are “not too common.”
Saturday’s fire started after a bird flew into power lines, burst into flames, plummeted to the earth and ignited the dry grass, according to Kinoshita. It was contained within a half-hour and fully extinguished within three hours, he said.
“It was a bird-into-a-power-line type of deal,” Kinoshita said, adding that fires caused by flaming birds are “not too common.”
Written by Luke Roney
