Update: Power flicker? Bird vs. wires, 2nd time today

FIRST REPORT, 4:37 PM: After a few reports of power flickering, the 911 log shows a transformer fire reported off Beach Drive near La Rustica. On our way to check it out.

4:49 PM UPDATE: Per scanner, this – like an earlier incident elsewhere – was apparently a case of bird vs. wires. No lingering outages, and Seattle Fire cleared the scene before we arrived – there’s no sign even of debris in the area.

JanS August 5, 2012 (4:42 pm)

awww, heck, they’re just melting….

Krm66 August 5, 2012 (4:42 pm)

Power out for about 20 seconds. Knew WSB would tell me why. Thanks WSB.

WSB August 5, 2012 (4:44 pm)

Jan – Though not related as far as we know, earlier small outage (7 customers) reported in “keeping cool” story comments apparently boiled down to a fried crow (RIP):
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https://wsb.blackfin.biz/2012/08/west-seattle-weather-watch-your-ideas-for-keeping-cool/comment-page-1#comment-895248

Thom August 5, 2012 (4:44 pm)

I live on Alki point and 15 minutes ago I was sitting out on my back deck and heard an odd pulsing/grinding noise and noticed my iPad had lost the connection to my wifi.

I came inside to check my router and my power had gone out but had then come right back up. I wondered what it was.

Thanks WSB. You folks are always on top of things.

WSB August 5, 2012 (4:49 pm)

Update, our crew isn’t quite there yet but scanner says this too was a case of bird vs. wires …

jwws August 5, 2012 (4:51 pm)

bad day for crows….glad to have our power back on though. didn’t like picking up dead crow at end of driveway…..

JanS August 5, 2012 (5:06 pm)

lol…a little BBQ sauce for that crow, please…

smokeycretin9 August 5, 2012 (6:19 pm)

That happened at my work a few weeks back. Crow landed on the wrong part of transformer or a wrong wire and BZZZZZZZZZ. RIP Mr. Crow, but thanks for getting me out of work early.

Sue August 5, 2012 (6:45 pm)

That explains a lot. We had just turned on our air conditioner for the first time in 2 years and it sounded like it was laboring and the compressor kept turning off like in a brown-out. I assumed it was on its last legs. Turned out to be right around the time of that second bird incident.