La Plata Electric Association crews on Thursday restored power to 477 customers in the Animas Valley after an animal crawled into an underground junction box and shorted the system.
The outage, which lasted from 6:11 a.m. 8:30 a.m., stretched from Dalton Ranch into the north valley.
No evidence of what kind of animal triggered the failure was immediately seen.
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