BATON ROUGE - Power has been restored in downtown Baton Rouge after a morning outage.

The outage was reported before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Several people were trapped in elevators due to the lack of electricity. 

Entergy told WBRZ the outage was caused by a squirrel that got into a substation. The animal died.

Power was restored to customers before 10 a.m.