Residents of Moab Drive in Claremont were startled Monday morning by a loud bang and a burst of smoke resembling fireworks. Moments later, around 9:30 a.m., the power went out on Moab Drive and on Montana Lane, to the south. The blown transformer left at least a dozen homes without electricity for nearly 11 hours. Southern California Edison crews said the cause of the outage was a squirrel that made an unfortunate misstep, triggering the explosion and killing the rodent. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger