Thousands of southern Alberta residents were without power for hours Friday—because of a bird.
AltaLink spokesperson Scott Schreiner told Global News a bird flew into a transformer at the Pincher Creek substation at around 10 a.m. Friday.
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Every orange dot on the map above represents an outage.
The transformer itself was also damaged, so work was underway to shift the power output to a different transformer on-site Friday afternoon.
As many as 5,000 people were without power at one point, down to 194 customers in the Pincher Creek area by 3:45 p.m., with hopes they would be reconnected by 8 p.m.
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