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PROVIDENCE – More than 4,000 National Grid customers in downtown Providence Tuesday morning lost power after a squirrel caused an outage at the South Street substation. National Grid spokesman David D. Graves said the outage happened just after 10 a.m., affecting 4,500 customers when a squirrel came into contact with a conductor carrying electricity, causing…