Birds to blame for two recent power outages, utility says

Alaska Power and Telephone says “animal vandalism” was the cause of two of three power outages that all happened within the last three weeks.
The frequency of outages recently has been unusual, AP&T’s local manager Darren Belisle in Skagway said, but the timing seems to be a coincidence.
The most recent outage was about 3 p.m. Monday.
A raven got into AP&T’s main power transformer in Haines, Belisle said.
The corvid interference caused the