Squirrel knocks out power to over 4K in Kettering Tuesday afternoon

A black squirrel is up in a tree in Xenia. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF

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A black squirrel is up in a tree in Xenia. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF
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Oct 12, 2022
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A squirrel interfering with electrical equipment caused an outage that affected over 4,000 power customers Tuesday afternoon, according to AES spokeswoman Mary Ann Kabel.

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As of 8:05 p.m., over 750 customers remain without power, though Kabel said that AES anticipated power to be restored quickly.

The outage was reported around 5:20 p.m., according to the AES outage map, and Kabel said it affected 4,306 households.

Within the first 15-20 minutes, she said, power was restored to about 2,000 customers, and around 1,300 more in the 15-20 minutes after that.

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