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Animal causes Callaway County power outage

This clip from the Ameren Missouri outage map shows the location of a large outage in Callaway County on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.
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This clip from the Ameren Missouri outage map shows the location of a large outage in Callaway County on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.
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November 11, 2024 12:38 PM
Published 12:32 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A power outage centered in the New Bloomfield area cut electricity to more than 1,400 Ameren Missouri customers Monday.

Ameren Missouri's online outage map showed 1,434 customers without power at 12:30 p.m. Monday. The outage started at about 11:30 a.m. and could take until 2:30 p.m. to fix, the utility's outage map says.

An Ameren Missouri spokesperson said an animal got into a substation and caused the outage. Crews were at the site and the utility hoped to have power restored by 2 p.m., the spokesperson wrote.

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