Guess you guys are not interested in the real story about these varmints. Wait until they cause a fire in a house while you are inside. Ask me, its happened to my house when I lived back in the mid-west and its not a fun experience.
Squirrel ignites 3,000-degree fireball *|* Yukon News
Squirrel ignites 3,000-degree fireball
Friday April 17, 2009
Yukon Electrical lineman Richard Zebruck holds up the cause of Thursday’s power outage. The squirrel shorted out a breaker at the Mountainview substation.
The smell of fried squirrel lingered in the air.
An hour earlier, the frolicking rodent triggered a fireball atop a substation that damaged electrical equipment and shut down power to the southern Yukon for an hour on Thursday morning.
About 2,400 amps of electricity flowed through the animal, cooking it at about 3,000 degrees Celsius, said Jay Massie, superintendent of operations at Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd.
Finally, if that was not enough for you, here is more.
When squirrels inhabit an attic, they chew to wear their teeth, and damage wood rafters, ceiling joists and electrical conductors. The bare live conductors here can cause a fire, or electrical shock and needs immediate attention; repair, removal of all soiled insulation, and review of all electrical wiring in the attic by licensed electrician and repairs made as determined. The place needs to be sanitized and re-insulated. This is costly and certainly is dangerous.
