You all seen the singing magpie last week, mimicking the sirens of fire trucks in Newcastle, now it appears magpies are starting fires as well.
Around 5:40pm on the 14th of January, it’s believed a magpie was feasting on a dead flying fox which had attached itself to power line insulators which caused the power lines to arc, as a result of the arc bush was set alight near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley.
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