VULTURE'S DEATH SPARKS 1-ACRE FIRE IN VALENCIA BRUSH.Byline: Daily News An acre brush fire Thursday was started by a turkey vulture turkey vulture or turkey buzzard Species (Cathartes aura) of long-winged, long-tailed vulture (family Cathartidae), about 30 in. (75 cm) long, with dark plumage, whitish beak and legs, bare red head covered with whitish bumps, and a 6-ft (1.8-m) wingspread. that electrocuted itself by landing on power lines, fire officials said. The bird, which was killed, caught fire and fell into brush beneath the power lines, which were in a secluded area near a dirt service road behind Magic Mountain Parkway. ``He grounded himself out,'' Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Fire Capt. Daryl Goulet said of the vulture vulture, common name for large birds of prey of temperate and tropical regions. The Old World vultures (family Accipitridae) are allied to hawks and eagles; the more ancient American vultures and condors are of a different family (Cathartidae) with distant links to . ``It torched him and burned him.'' The 9:30 a.m. fire took less than a dozen firefighters a few minutes to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. , officials said. |
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