Animal knocks out power to hundreds of homes in downtown Kitchener

By Kevin Nielsen Global News

Posted July 4, 2018 11:15 am

Updated July 4, 2018 11:21 am

1 min read

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The City of Kitchener flag outside of city hall. Nick Westoll / File / Global News

Over 700 homes in downtown Kitchener were left without power on Wednesday morning.

The cause of the outage? It was animal contact, according to Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro.

Power has been restored to all customers affected by this morning's power outage in #Kitchener. Cause was an animal contact. Thanks for your patience.
— KWHydro (@KWHydro) July 4, 2018

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The outage lasted for around two hours and affected 712 homes in an area between Weber Street East and King Street East, just west of Cedar Street North.

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