Fire in the Tree

Fire in the Tree
We were out walking and Tina spotted some smoke. In this picture you can see the power line arcing against a pretty good size tree limb. We tried calling 911, but they didn't get very excited about it. The fire department showed up, but couldn't do anything. After a while it burned through and enough of the branch fell on the wire to break it and at that point a breaker somewhere tripped and the show was over. In many places tree limbs are cut back from power lines, but not in this area for some reason. My thought is that it's rather dangerous to do it this way.