Wisconsin raccoon tangles with substation equipment, and 5,200 customers lose power

Wisconsin raccoon tangles with substation equipment, and 5,200 customers lose power

A nighttime outage in Watertown, Wisconsin, illustrated how quickly one encounter between wildlife and utility equipment can leave thousands of people without electricity. What happened? Shortly after midnight one night in May, roughly 5,212 Watertown-area customers lost power when a raccoon touched equipment at a nearby substation, according to the Watertown Daily Times. The outage was linked to the Concord Substation, which serves the Watertow…