More than 1,700 We Energies customers were without power for over an hour on Thanksgiving Day after a squirrel came into contact with power equipment, the company told the Journal Sentinel. The outage ...

Power was restored in Sunnyside after a squirrel caused an outage affecting over 90 homes on Monday morning. The outage was ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — More than 10,000 residents lost power Wednesday in Virginia Beach after a squirrel got into a substation, according to Dominion Energy. Although power was restored, the ...

Squirrels, raccoons, and birds can cause outages by interacting with high-voltage equipment in substations. These incidents can damage expensive equipment, such as transformers and circuit breakers, ...