About 15,000 customers in Valley Village went without power Thursday.
By ABC7.com staff
Updated 39 mins ago
VALLEY VILLAGE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A crow that came in contact with a circuit breaker caused a power outage for about 15,000 customers in the Valley Village area Thursday, officials said.
The outage began at 8:48 a.m., when the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Distributing Station 57 experienced an equipment failure. Crews later determined that a crow had come into contact with a 34,500-volt circuit breaker.
The outage is affecting traffic signals in the area and city crews are directing traffic.
The department initially indicated the repair work could take up to 10 hours to complete. Crews tried to switch circuits at the distributing station, but the initial efforts did not resolve the problem, the DWP said.
The DWP is posting updates online on its web page and via Twitter.