The swan caught hearth, and shortly the bottom was in flames – 2024-05-15 07:41:11

Illustration of swans in Lappajärvi. Tom Olli

A wildfire broke out in Pohjois Savo in Lapinlahti on Tuesday as a result of a swan flew into an influence line. The voltage of the ability line ignited the swan’s feathers and the burning fowl ignited the encompassing terrain because it dropped to the bottom.

– There’s such a excessive voltage within the energy line that it causes an arc and that arc ignites, for instance, feathers from a fowl, says the hearth marshal Tommi Raittila from the Pohjois Savo rescue service.

The fowl succumbed to the extreme shock attributable to the voltage and fell to the bottom. In line with Raitila, the case just isn’t distinctive.

– These occur a couple of occasions a 12 months.

The wildfire unfold over an space of ​​just below a hectare. The fireplace division has extinguished the hearth, and post-extinguishing work is underway. There isn’t a hazard of the hearth spreading.

– Small wisps of smoke will rise and we are going to extinguish these flames from there.