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\n\n\n\ncontextless! 80 squirrles, 13 racoons, a couple dozen brids. but what fraction of all outages is this? if signficant, need to better squirrel-=proff infrstructure, although it is well kn ow this is a difficult problem. a;so, my swag on how muc power it would tanke to trip a bigg circuit breaker? would that amount of current make the squirrel go poof pretty quickly, not enough to trip breakers? but bey monitoring is perecise enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Squirrels caused about 80 power outages in Toronto in 2023 after coming into contact with power equipment, Toronto Hydro said, after a squirrel-related outage in the city Wednesday affected about 6,500 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n