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Oh nuts! Squirrel caused Williams St. power outage

Published 12/02/2009 12:00 AM
Updated 12/02/2009 12:08 PM

New London — Power for 1,000 customers was disrupted for two hours this morning after a squirrel managed to get into equipment in a substation in the city, a Connecticut Light & Power spokesman said.

The outage was reported at 8:49 a.m..

The Coast Guard Academy and Connecticut College were also without power during that time.

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