WILL Substation Down Due to a Squirrel ~!~Gro~

By Zachary Gillihan; posted January 21, 2004

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Today at 3:05PM on the SC Police reported that stop lights from Lemay Ferry and Lindberg to Victor to Will to Union all the 34kv line was dead. Police said " Lines Down, Lines Down" and nothing more so i got to the scene at 3:16 and there were no lines everywhere. Finally traced every 34kv line to a substation near my house and it was on then i traced it to the substation near WILL and there was a AmerenUE truck so i stopped by and they said half the sub was on the other half was off. They said a squirrel climbed down A phase and got to a open switch and shorted and blew up the switch, Here's the picture of the dead squirrel on the ground.

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