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Bird Breaks Breaker

Last updated on Monday, July 17, 2006

(ORLEANS) - A bird running into some electric lines this morning caused an outage west of Orleans for about 700 customers.

According to an Orange County REMC spokeswoman the bird tripped a breaker about 8:30AM this morning.

It took workers about a half hour to track down the problem and restore power to the area.

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