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About 2,800 Ameren Illinois customers were without power in the East Alton / Wood River area this morning. A squirrel got into some equipment at the Picker Street substation. The outage lasted for about two hours.

As a result, the East Alton School District 13 released school early. Ameren, Illinois spokesman Brian Bretsch tells The Big Z while animal-related outages have decreased significantly in recent years, they can still happen.

He says the outage was short enough that the major consequences customers will likely see is having to resent their electric equipment such as digital clocks.

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