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Brief power outage affects thousands in Vancouver

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 04 Nov, 2020 12:00 AM

Tens of thousands of Vancouver residents suddenly found themselves without power as electricity was briefly cut to much of the west side of the city on Wednesday.

The lights went out shortly after 9:15 a.m.

A notice on the BC Hydro website blamed a transmission circuit failure for the problem.

The Crown corporation said as many as 60,000 customers were affected over a large area of Vancouver's west side.

Crews have restored power to customers affected by the outage in #Vancouver. #YVR https://t.co/rfUNtIieJb
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) November 4, 2020

A social media message from Hydro said power had been completely restored less than an hour later.

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