According to the Alaska Division of Forestry’s Facebook feed, a spark produced by a bald eagle hitting a power line ignited a small grass fire near Kenai on Monday.
A caller reported the fire, dubbed the Bald Eagle Fire, to the Alaska Division of Forestry’s Kenai / Kodiak Area office at 1:25 p.m. and said it was burning in a ditch near Mile 6.5 of Kalifornsky Beach Road. Forestry personnel responded and found a 20-foot-by-30-foot burned patch of grass with a dead bald eagle lying nearby.
An investigation revealed that a spark caused by the eagle’s collision with the power line caught the grass on fire. The fire was not active when forestry personnel arrived and was declared contained and controlled at 2:25 p.m.
Alaska Fish and Wildlife Troopers took possession of the dead eagle.
