Wayward rodent causes Strip outage

Three Strip casinos lost power for an hour Friday morning when a rodent contacted electrical equipment at the Highland Substation at 25 S. Highland Drive, Nevada Power Co. reported.

The outage started about

4:40 a.m. and ended about

5:50 a.m., said Sonya Headen, a spokeswoman for Nevada Power.

About 500 customers, many of them businesses, were affected, including the New Frontier, Circus Circus and the Riviera.

"Our crews worked very quick and very safely, and the power was out one hour and 10 minutes," Headen said.

There was one casualty: The rodent did not survive.

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