The fire was brought under control and extinguished with the help of the Ashcroft Fire Team's firefighters and farm owners and staff from the British Columbia Hydropower and Electricity Agency, a Canadian power company.
Firefighters investigated and determined that the fire was not caused by the carelessness of camping goers or any equipment was faulty, but by a fish.
The authorities believe that a hawk carrying a fish in the air left its prey on its back. Therefore, the fish crashed into the power line, creating fires falling onto the dry grass and causing a fire, spreading about 4,000m2.
The nearest river, where the hawk was likely to have caught prey, was about 3.2km from the scene of the fire.
The authorities are still unclear why the bird released the fish, but there is at least one theory.
The Ashcroft Fire Department suspected that the fish's size combined with the heat of July 30 "could have caused the bird to be quite tired and dropped its prey."
A temporary power outage was reported in Ashcroft, a village of more than 1,500 people, about 338km northeast of Vancouver.
Regarding the hawk, the fire department reported, "Our main violator was not injured in the incident and was still flying freely."
