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Updated: 6:48 PM Jul 7, 2008
Wild Animal Sets Wildfire In Beaufort County
Fire investigators say a hawk, sparked a field fire this afternoon that came dangerously close to burning down a farm house in Beaufort County.
Posted: 8:48 PM Jul 6, 2008Reporter: Lynnette Taylor |
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Fire investigators say a hawk, sparked a field fire this afternoon that came dangerously close to burning down a farm house in beaufort county.
Firefighters responded to a freshly cut wheat field off pamlico beach road just before 5:30 this afternoon.
The dry stubs left in the field quickly spread, but John Pack with Emergency Management says, the winds died down long enough for them to gain the upper hand on the flames.
Crews from Sidney, Belhaven And Pantego, protected the structure from the raging flames and put out hot spots. In the end, 8 acres had been burned.
Later they found a dead hawk at the base of a electrical pole and downed powerlines.
They suspect the hawk landed on the wires, snapped the powerlines, causing sparks to rain down on the field.
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i see why this USA we live in is so screwd up some people just dont get it hawks,trees, wind, MAN PLEASE it was a red tail hawk and he flew in and hit 2 lines at the same time which causes a short which will break the line, some of you sould try it sometime ! THEN YOULL KNOW WHOS FAULT IT IS some of you need to get real..and yes I was there
Nice mugshot of a hawk. What was he arrested for the first time. Serves him right, that feathered habitual felon, snapping power lines and generally wreaking havoc. Though it would Have been respectful Of his memory write In complete sentences and capitalize The, right words. It Also would have been nice. to ; use proper Punctuation? I live near wheat fields and am concerned about the stubs spreading. There's a lot of harvesting been going on and it could take my land. Can you Do an article, about that. nICE, joB~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdqFbnZPzxw This video is not an exact scenario, but can you picture a hawk, a bird of prey with a large wing span, somehow inadvertently causing this? If contact is made between two lines for a just the right amount of time, could not the line snap due to the heat generated?
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