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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.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...regional/e6e95af32b3bdc8687257043005b0908.txt
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.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...regional/e6e95af32b3bdc8687257043005b0908.txt
I have squirrels in my backyard and they are my pets. They even come up and bang on the glass door when they want to be fed. Guess they know a sucker when they see one. There should be some way to put a baffle on that pole to keep this from happening again.