KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) - A raccoon is to blame for a power outage that left thousands of central Florida residents in the dark.
Chris Gent, the vice president of corporate communications for the Kissimmee Utility Authority, tells the Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2rzzByY ) that the raccoon climbed onto a 13,200-volt piece of equipment at a substation late Tuesday, causing three primary feeder lines to fail.
The outage left nearly 5,200 people without power for almost an hour.
Gent says the raccoon died at the scene.
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