Squirrel Leads To Hood River Power Outage

Pacific Power reports a squirrel got into Hood River’s Union Street substation, leading to a blown transformer that took out power to much of Hood River this morning.  The outage occurred at 8:50 a.m., and Pacific Power crews restored the electricity about an hour later.

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