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Squirrel fires regular occurrence in Canadian border town

The Associated Press

OSOYOOS, British Columbia ? Once again, a squirrel clambering onto a power line has been blamed for a brush fire in this border town north of Oroville, Wash.

Firefighters were summoned Monday after a squirrel scrambled up a Fortis Inc. utility pole, got zapped and landed in flames on some dry brush outside a fruit packing business, Fire Chief Ross Driver said.

By the time a pumper truck and a bush truck arrived, nearby residents had doused the flames.

"This identical incident has happened on the same pole one or two times a year for the past several years," Driver said.

Each time, firefighters find a dead, burned squirrel at the base of the utility pole, he said.

Driver said he didn't know what Fortis could do to prevent future squirrel-caused fires.

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they could just put a circular plate liek a ring that extends outwards so the squrrel can't climb higher than the plate and not get to the power line.

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lol...you know all the other squirrles are around coaxing the one to try it

"common its what all the cool squirrles are doing"

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