Squirrel blamed for Sebastopol power outage

About 200 Sebastopol-area customers lost power for more than an hour Thursday morning when a squirrel apparently tripped a circuit near Highway 116, PG&E said.

The outage occurred at 8:09 a.m., leaving 203 households and businesses in the dark, PG&E spokesman Brandi Ehlers said.

Power was restored by 9:14 a.m., she said.

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