B.C. brush fire sparked by bird dropping fish on power lines, firefighters say
Firefighters in B.C.'s Interior believe they have identified the cause of a small brush fire and power outage — an osprey and a fish...."We get out there and right at the base of the pole, we find this charred fish," White said. "And we're just wondering, how did this get here?"
It was determined the fish had been dropped by an osprey, "and when it had fallen from the sky, it had hit a couple of the lines, and that's what created the embers landing in the grasses and taking off from there."
"We do suspect by the size of the fish and the heat of the day probably caused the rather tired bird to drop its catch," the fire department wrote in a social media post.
The post said without explanation that firefighters verified that the "prime suspect sustained no injuries in the incident."