Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Raccoon Causes Power Outage

A raccoon, not weather, caused this morning's power outage in the City of Bradford.

Penelec spokeswoman Linda Routzhan tells WESB and The HERO the raccoon came in contact with a circuit breaker on a high voltage supply line at around 5:30 this morning.

Penele crews were able to "do some switching and back feed all customers." Power was restored about about 6:45 a.m.

Crews are checking out the circuit breaker to make sure everything can run normally.

About 2,300 customers were affected.

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