Power restored to thousands of Westar Energy customers north of Sixth Street

Four thousand Westar Energy customers lost power in Lawrence Monday morning.

Power has been restored to nearly all customers as of 2:30 p.m., according to the company’s website.

The area affected was north of Sixth Street and west of Massachusetts.

Westar Energy representative Nick Bundy said that the outage was likely caused by a bird that flew into a substation in the 1200 block of North 1800 Road.