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Over 3,100 Evergy customers lost power Tuesday morning in Raymore after squirrel interfered with equipment

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KANSAS CITY MO. — More than 3,100 Evergy customers were without power Tuesday morning in Raymore after a squirrel interfered with Evergy equipment.

By 10:15 a.m., power was restored to the 3,185 Evergy customers that were impacted at the height of the outage, according to Evergy.

Evergy outage map

The type of equipment damaged by the squirrel is not known at this time.

The outage area reportedly includes several schools in the Raymore-Peculiar School District.

You can track restoration efforts using Evergy's outage map.

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