The loud “bang” heard by many downtown Juneau residents Monday morning wasn’t a gunshot — it was a fuse blown by a trimmed tree in the basin area of Starr Hill.
Debbie Driscoll, a vice president and spokesperson for Alaska Electric Light and Power, said crews were trimming an awkwardly placed tree Monday in the neighborhood and set a nearby power line’s fuse to extreme sensitivity in case something went wrong.
“The tree did exactly what we thought it would do,” Driscoll said by phone, and set off the fuse.
When residents heard a noise like a shotgun blast, “that was the fuse,” Driscoll said.
The tripped fuse knocked power out for about five minutes, she said.
