A bird dropped a fish on power lines and sparked a brush fire in Canada, firefighters say
'Another suspicion could be that it's tired of raw fish and wanted to give cooked a try,' the Ashcroft Fire Rescue service said in a tongue-in-cheek social media post about the incident.
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As memories fade, Canadians mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War
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