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Crow causes large power outage in Corvallis

Crow causes large power outage in Corvallis

The big Benton County power outage on Tuesday night was caused by a little bird, according to Pacific Power spokesman Tom Gauntt.

A crow flew into a transformer at the Marys River Substation shortly after 8:30 p.m., causing a small fire and an outage that affected roughly 12,000 customers in Corvallis and than 1,000 customers in Linn County. 

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