Squirrel in substation caused Tues power outage

Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company reports that a power outage in occurred in Jamestown Tuesday afternoon starting at 3:15 –p.m. for about 28 minutes.

Customer Service Manager,Jeff Hoff at the Jamestown Otter Tail Power Company office says, a squirrel got into the Substation located across from City Hall, and tripped the circuit affecting about 2,300 customers in the downtown area, plus parts of Southeast Jamestown and Northeast Jamestown including the University of Jamestown campus, areas fed from the substation.