{"id":15295,"date":"2017-06-13T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/birds-shocked-twice-knock-out-power-to-juneau-neighborhoods\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:08:23","slug":"birds-shocked-twice-knock-out-power-to-juneau-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/birds-shocked-twice-knock-out-power-to-juneau-neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds, shocked, twice knock out power to Juneau neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of unrelated birds were the culprits behind two Juneau power outages Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, a power outage knocked out electrical service to Douglas, West Juneau, North Douglas and downtown. Alaska Electric Light and Power reported that the outage was likely caused by a bird.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Driscoll, an AEL&amp;P vice president and spokeswoman for the company, said by phone that line crews didn&rsquo;t find any sign of the bird, but there has been increased bird activity in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Birds that short-circuit high-voltage electrical lines frequently leave few remains. Power was restored within the hour, Driscoll said, after crews found nothing impeding the power line.<\/p>\n<p>Almost exactly 24 hours later, a wayward crow entered AEL&amp;P&rsquo;s electrical substation in Salmon Creek. That crow triggered an electrical flash that damaged some of AEL&amp;P&rsquo;s equipment Monday morning, cutting electrical service to the Salmon Creek and Lemon Creek neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored within half an hour. The crow did not survive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Contact reporter James Brooks at james.k.brooks@juneauempire.com or call 419-7732.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of unrelated birds were the culprits behind two Juneau power outages Sunday and Monday. On Sunday morning, a power outage knocked out electrical service to Douglas, West Juneau, North Douglas and downtown. Alaska Electric Light and Power reported that the outage was likely caused by a bird. Debbie Driscoll, an AEL&amp;P vice president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}