Crow causes power outage in New West
Posted August 20, 2019 2:40 pm.
Last Updated August 20, 2019 2:43 pm.
NEW WESTMINSTER (NEWS 1130) — We now know what caused a power outage Monday night in parts of New Westminster that had a number of people on social media expressing their frustration: a crow.
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Somehow, it found its way into the city substation, causing a fault and knocking out a feeder.
As for the culprit, the city says “the crow succumbed to its injuries.”
It comes a little more than a month after a wide-spread outage left two-thirds of the city in the dark.