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A small fire ignited in a Pleasanton neighborhood near Shadow Cliffs Lake early Tuesday morning due to a hawk landing on a power line, according to the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.
Firefighters responded to the half-acre vegetation fire that broke out in a patch of mowed grass, according to LPFD spokesperson Rosa Ramos.
Balakrishnan Damodaran, a Pleasanton resident who lives a couple houses down from where the fire started, recounted what he heard.
“I didn’t see the incident except (for) the bright flashes through the window and sound,” Damodaran told the Weekly. “It was zapping sound as in electric discharge for about two to three seconds.”
The incident took place right behind 2963 Liberty Drive at around 6 a.m., Damodaran said.
Ramos said the fire had a “very slow rate of spread, and minimal potential” and firefighters were able to knock down the fire in about 20 minutes.
