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Hungry beaver to blame for temporary power outage in Slippery Rock area
About 10,000 West Penn Power customers in the Slippery Rock area were without power for less than a minute Thursday night while crews made emergency repairs to a transmission structure, a utility spokesman said.
A beaver chewed through a large tree, which company officials feared might topple onto a transmission line and cause a longer outage, West Penn Power spokesman Todd Meyers said.
Slippery Rock University was impacted by the temporary outage.
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