Loading ...After discovering the latest omen of the world’s coming demise, the Clog encourages Berkeley students to put down their books and enjoy their short-lived time on earth.
While we were busy careening our necks to get a glimpse of Angel Island ablaze, Redding suffered the plague of conflagration too. Because of a squirrel.
A flaming squirrel, to be exact. It shorted out a power line, combusted and fell over into a dry patch of grass. The important thing to consider here, though, is not what we can do to protect the sanctity of our dry vegetation. Instead, as one SF Gate commenter puts it, “would this have happened if the squirrel were straight?” Ah yes, a conundrum indeed.
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Flaming squirrel blamed for small Calif. wildfire [SF Chron]
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