Power outage blamed on bird

Seattle City Light reports that power has been restored to an outage area in north Seattle, Shoreline, and Lake Forest Park that affected 5,171 customers.

Crews determined that a bird caused a piece of equipment to short circuit and start a small pole fire.

The boundaries were on the north; NE 185th St., on the south; NE 120th St., on the east; 33rd Ave NE and on the west, Corliss Ave N.

Not all customers within the boundaries were affected. The original outage began at 6:58 a.m. Power was fully restored at 8:55 a.m.