{"id":236511,"date":"2026-05-19T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:30:34","slug":"squirrel-causes-staten-island-power-outage-affecting-93-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236511\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel causes Staten Island power outage affecting 93 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Updated: May. 18, 2026, 9:12 a.m.|Published: May. 18, 2026, 8:40 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Sunnyside power outage\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VPDDHPZGZBE57FYYDHTOSST2F4.JPG\"  \/>A squirrel making contact with overhead wires caused a power outage in Sunnyside on Monday, May 18 that affected over 90 homes.(Advance\/SILive.com | Mike Matteo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SC2447HGBNGEROMGTBSAIQAFWE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Power was restored in Sunnyside after a squirrel caused an outage affecting over 90 homes on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RIAIFZEMMBAK5J5F4ADYIAZEOY\">The outage was first reported at around 7 a.m. Monday and affected customers along Grand Avenue, between Glenwood Avenue and Rugby Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"con ed outage map\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GDELI5VABRGP7BC43ACAKJI3LI.png\"  \/>Over 90 customers were affected by the outage on Monday, May 18, according to the Con Ed outage map.(Courtesy Con Ed)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FKF65INADZB2VI67VGYW3EFUPU\">At one point, 93 customers reported not having power in the immediate area, <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.coned.com\/external\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/outagemap.coned.com\/external\/default.html\">according to the Con Ed power outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MTKX4MXHYFAMDGERYDP47IWM3Y\">A spokesperson for Con Ed said that the outage was caused by a squirrel making contact with an overhead wire in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZI7DHZEUCFB5VFWITOIYC6JQTU\">A dead squirrel with charred fur was seen on the sidewalk underneath power lines on Grand Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2K4YU6XWLJE2LODDDVGXFLTIOQ\">One resident affected by the outage said that she heard a loud popping noise right before the power went out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UNKAMCHYSJBEJBZGGS7K6JT3UM\">The Con Ed spokesperson confirmed that power had been restored to the area by around 8:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Matteo covers breaking and trending news for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com. Matteo, a Staten Island native, graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2023 with a&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsUpdated: May. 18, 2026, 9:12 a.m.|Published: May. 18, 2026, 8:40 a.m.A squirrel making contact with overhead wires caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-236511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}