Squirrel Causes Mass Outages in Waltham, Watertown

A squirrel was the cause of mass power outages in Waltham and Watertown Thursday morning, a spokesperson for Eversource Energy told Patch.

Eversource Massachusetts spokesperson Rhiannon D'Angelo said in an email more than 4,000 customers were without power after a squirrel came into contact with the company's electrical equipment shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Much of the power was restored by 12:30 p.m., D'Angelo said.

At the height of the outages, more than 600 residents in Waltham and 3,000 in Watertown had lost power.

>>>Pictured: Not the culprit. Image courtesy Flickr user vladeb, Creative Commons