Just the bear facts

Two public radio stations in Northern California may have been knocked off the air by a hungry bear.

The Redding Record Searchlight reports that power was restored Tuesday, July 24th to the Jefferson Public Radio stations, which had gone silent two days earlier after what was thought to be a wayward bear snapped the cable.

It was originally thought that the outage was caused by a microwave equipment failure or a severed power line on Mt. Bradley.

However, an engineer for the stations has concluded that the likely culprit was a bear that apparently had pulled apart a special connector while trying to get to a beehive under the line. The bear was nowhere in sight when repair workers arrived.

The station Web site says the problem affected listeners in Shasta County and much of Siskiyou County.

Source: ARNewsline