Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Lights out for unlucky squirrel

Causes outage in Warm Springs neighborhood

By JON DUVAL
Express Staff Writer

A tragically curious squirrel caused a power outage in the Warm Springs neighborhood of Ketchum on Friday evening.

Idaho Power spokesman Russ Jones said that 134 customers lost electricity at 8:09 p.m. after a squirrel got mixed up with some of the company's equipment, possibly a transformer.

"A squirrel got into a place it shouldn't have and it paid the price," he said.

Jones said power was restored to 52 customers around 8:20 p.m. and to the remainder at 11:50 p.m.

Jon Duval: jduval@mtexpress.com



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