Electricity restored after bird knocks out power to thousands (update)

By Dave Heintzman

Posted Jul 26, 2019 12:23:00 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Power has been restored to thousands of Halifax Regional Municipality residents who woke up to no electricity Friday morning.

Shortly after 6 a.m., the lights went out for 10,000 customers in the Hammonds Plains area.

Nova Scotia Power's outage map listed cause as “wildlife interference.”

“In this case it was a bird that flew into a piece of equipment which caused the trip in the outage,” explains a spokesperson for the utility, Patti Lewis.

Lewis says crews were able to quickly, and safely restore power to the affected customers within three hours.

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