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Bird causes thousands to lose power in Virginia Beach

Posted at 2:55 PM, May 25, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-25 14:58:00-04

VB Power Outage

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A bird made contact with Dominion Virginia Power’s equipment causing over 9,200 customers to lose power Wednesday afternoon.

The incident happened around 1:30 p.m.

Within an hour, over 4,000 customers were restored, according to Dominion Virginia Power spokesperson Bonita Harris.

The remaining customers had their power restored around 2:45 p.m.

The bird died from its injuries.

Click here to see the latest outage map on Dom.com