Update (Friday, 5:50 p.m.):
BC Hydro fully restored power for 9891 customers in the north side of Prince George at 5:49 p.m.
Spokesperson Bob Gammer said was caused by a vehicle colliding with a transmission pole between Heyer Road and Haldi Road, affecting a couple of circuits at the Chief Lake substation.
Prince George RCMP also confirmed the collision, adding that it involved a small SUV.
Customers were without power for roughly four hours.
Update (Friday, 4:30 p.m.):
BC Hydro is estimating power to be restored at around 5:00 p.m. for 9891 customers in northern Prince George.
Spokesperson Bob Gammer said a transmission pole was hit between Heyer Road and Haldi Road, affecting a couple of circuits at the Chief Lake substation.
Gammer said crews have been on site, quickly getting power up and running.
“Fortunately in this case, there’s good access. It’s only one structure that was affected, it doesn’t sound like there’s too much other damage.”
“By the time this is all said and done, if power is restored based on our current estimate, power will have been out for about three and a half hours.”
Earlier this afternoon, Prince George RCMP confirmed the single vehicle accident involved a small SUV, with no information on potential injuries.
Update (Friday, 3:13 p.m.):
The Prince George RCMP confirmed a single vehicle accident caused the outage on the north side of Prince George.
Corporal Jennifer Cooper said the call for the accident came in at around 1:30 p.m., and involved a small SUV that had ran into a BC Hydro pole in the Vanway area.
There’s no information on any potential injuries.
Original (Friday, 3:03 p.m.):
BC Hydro is attending a large outage affecting 9891 customers spanning from the north side of Prince George to Nukko Lake, roughly 33 kilometres north of the City.
According to the service, the outage was caused by a motor vehicle incident.
As of 2:55 p.m., BC Hydro doesn’t have an estimated time for when power will be restored.
A full list of affected areas can be found here.
More to come.
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