17 Westar customers lose power after squirrel interferes with equipment
At least 17 Lawrence Westar Energy customers were without power from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, confirmed Erin La Row, a spokeswoman for the company.
La Row said the outage was caused by a squirrel getting into equipment but that Westar didn’t know exactly how or where.
Westar outage map as of about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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