MARTIN, MI —

Air conditioning units and Father's Day church service sound systems went quiet Sunday morning when an errant squirrel in a substation knocked out power to 921 of the 981 Consumers Energy customers in the

, according to the utility's

Martin resident Amber Jager said she and village clerk Darcy Doezema were working in the Martin Area Community Garden near the high school on Palmer Street shortly before 10:30 a.m. when they heard a loud boom and witnessed a plume of yellow smoke in the west, behind the nearby elementary school.

She called 911 from her cell phone and summoned help to the 900 block of Templeton, where she knew the substation was located.

Later, chatting with the Consumers Energy technician, Jager said she learned that a squirrel was the source of the trouble; a village council member at the scene allowed her curious children to look at the dead animal, she said.

"There was no fur left on it,

" she said. She posted a photo on her Facebook page.

Consumers Energy spokesman Dennis McKee said at 1:35 p.m. said the estimated restoration time is 4 p.m. Sunday for the 93.9 percent of the village area customers affected by the outage.

McKee said ongoing restoration work from storm damage last week "wasn't helped at all" by equipment damage by the squirrel.

CORRECTION:

1:35 p.m. Equipment at a substation was damaged; estimated restoration time updated to 4 p.m.