Bird knocks out power to 847 ED3 customers

A hawk caused a power outage in part of the Maricopa area this morning.

According to Electrical District #3 Director of Engineering and Operations Larry Yates, the bird flew into a 69,000-volt line and knocked out power to 847 customers.

Those affected were south of Louis Johnson Drive and west of State Route 347.

The power went out around 5:36 a.m. ED3 restored power incrementally by transferring the power source to a substation on Farrell Road. Yates said all customers had power restored by 7:44 a.m.

He said the substations have protected fuses, but there was some damage that ED3 is working to fix. He said there will be no interruption of service when customers are transferred back to that substation.