{"id":747233,"date":"2026-06-19T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747233\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:43:08","slug":"update-bird-causes-wide-spread-outage-in-the-west-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747233\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Bird causes wide-spread outage in the west end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUC say the outage was caused by a bird coming in contact with their\u00a0high-voltage equipment at one of their\u00a0transformer stations<\/p>\n<p>7:50 a.m. update:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Power is now restored to all 11,000-plus customers, according to PUC&#8217;s outage map. PUC say the outage was caused by a bird coming in contact with their\u00a0high-voltage equipment at one of their\u00a0transformer stations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Original story:<\/p>\n<p>Over 11,000\u00a0Saultites are without power this morning.<\/p>\n<p>PUC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puc.ca\/outages-safety\/outages\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outage map<\/a>\u00a0shows 11,812\u00a0customers are experiencing an outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It started at 6:26 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The utility does not yet know the cause.<\/p>\n<p>More information will be provided as it becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUC say the outage was caused by a bird coming in contact with their\u00a0high-voltage equipment at one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-747233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}