KETTERING — UPDATE @ 11:53 p.m.: Electric service has been restored to those AES Ohio customers in the Kettering-Oakwood area who were affected by the power outage earlier Tuesday night, according to the AES Ohio online map.
INITIAL REPORT
A squirrel that came in contact with a switcher gets the blame for a power outage Tuesday evening that at one point affected approximately 4,289 AES Ohio customers in the Kettering area, company spokeswoman Kelly Millhouse said.
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That portion of customers in Kettering lost electric service about 5:20 p.m., she said.
By 7:20 p.m. or so, the number of customers affected was trimmed to 781, according to the AES online outage map.
All of the affected customers are expected to have their service restored by about 8:30 p.m. Millhouse said.
The squirrel, she said, did not survive.