{"id":22260,"date":"2025-10-26T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:34:20","slug":"wildlife-causes-power-outage-affecting-2700-in-west-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/22260\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife causes power outage affecting 2,700 in West El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Electric crews worked Sunday morning to restore power to about 2,700 customers in West El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>The area affected was off S. Mesa Hills Drive at 10 A.M.,  and lasted for about one hour.<\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Electric spokeswoman, &#8220;wildlife&#8221; (squirrel) got into the Substation.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/daytime-at-9\/shining-bright-how-el-paso-electric-is-bringing-solar-power-to-the-borderland\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/daytime-at-9\/shining-bright-how-el-paso-electric-is-bringing-solar-power-to-the-borderland\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shining Bright: How El Paso Electric is Bringing Solar Power to the Borderland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Electric crews worked Sunday morning to restore power to about 2,700&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,16304,16305,14428,16302,16303,2264,851],"class_list":{"0":"post-22260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-electric-crews","12":"tag-electricity-restoration","13":"tag-power-outage","14":"tag-squirrel","15":"tag-substation","16":"tag-west-el-paso","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}