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Squirrel Triggers Thanksgiving Power Outage On The Westside
Be careful up there, squirrel! (Photo by Chris Yarzab via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
Some people on the Westside had their Thanksgiving briefly interrupted thanks to a power outage sparked by a wayward squirrel.On Thursday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., 9,900 customers in Marina de Rey and Westchester were affected by a power outage when a distribution station near LAX went down. According to NBC Los Angeles, an LADWP crew discovered that a squirrel made its way onto a circuit breaker.
Power was restored around 4:45 p.m., allowing people to resume watching football and avoid having to talk politics with their uncle.
Unfortunately, the squirrel probably did not enjoy the rest of the holiday. "For lack of a better word, it would have created an explosion," LADWP spokesman Albert Rodriguez told LAist about the squirrel's encounter with the high-voltage circuit breaker.
Over in Massachusetts, a few hundred customers were also briefly without power on Thanksgiving morning due to a squirrel.