Duke Energy says helicopter during railroad work caused Cary outage
Duke Energy is restoring service after an afternoon power outage hit more than 30,000 customers in Cary, North Carolina, later reduced to about 10,000. The company attributes the outage to a helicopter conducting aerial vegetation management for railroad operations that took transmission lines out. Crews switched customers to other operating lines, and the outage map shows power restored to nearly all homes, with around 22 still affected.