Bird the cause of North Gong power outage

More than 1300 people in North Wollongong and Gwynneville were left without power this morning after a bird flew into a power line.

The power was out for around half an hour, from 8.15am to 8.45am, according to a spokeswoman from Endeavour Energy.

The outage, which was caused by a bird flying into a power line on the corner of Gipps Street and Crawford Avenue in North Wollongong, affected 1380 customers, the spokeswoman said. 

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