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Bird damages equipment, thousands lose power in downtown New Orleans

The outage includes large parts of the city's CBD, including areas around the Caesar's Superdome, North Claiborne Avenue and Earhart Boulevard.

NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 10,000 Entergy New Orleans customers were without power on Wednesday after crews believe a bird damaged electrical equipment.

According to the company, just under 300 customers are without power as of noon. That's down from more than 9,800 customers when the outage started.

"Our preliminary investigation indicates that a bird may have been the cause of the outage," a statement from the company to WWL-TV said. "We hope to have estimated times of restoration shortly."

The outage includes large parts of the city's CBD, including areas around the Caesar's Superdome, North Claiborne Avenue and Earhart Boulevard.

New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno said the outage may have started at the Derbigny Substation.

Entergy said that crews are on the scene and are working to isolate the problem so that they can begin field switching affected customers while the repairs are made.

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