Two separate power outages left thousands of people in Saskatoon and surrounding areas in the dark on Monday.
The first power outage happened after a SaskPower pole, located alongside of Highway 7 between 11th Street and Highway 60, caught fire and threatened to come down across the highway.
The highway was closed for several hours while crews repaired the damaged line.
That fire caused power outages in the Confederation Park, Fairhaven, Parkridge and Dundonald areas of Saskatoon along with Martensville, Hague, Rosthern, Dalmeny, Borden, Radisson, Wakaw and Duck Lake.
In all, SaskPower says about 10,000 customers were affected by the outage and was hoping to have power back to its customers by mid to late afternoon.
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Then around 1:30 p.m., a second power outage caused other parts of Saskatoon, including Caswell, Mayfair, Mount Royal, Pleasant Hill, City Park, North Park, Richmond Heights and Kelsey-Woodlawn along with the downtown core and airport area, to go dark.
Saskatoon Light and Power says power has now been restored to all parts of the city it services.
Trevor Bell from the city says the power outage in Saskatoon was caused by a major transmission line failure on the west side.
The cause of the failure is not known at this time but Bell says it doesn’t appear to be part of the SaskPower pole fire.
Bell was unable to say how many thousands of customers were affected by the second outage.
Traffic lights were affected by the power outage and city crews are working on getting the traffic lights functioning with generators.
Police say motorists should treat those intersections as four way stops until the lights are functioning again.
The outage caused classes at Tommy Douglas Collegiate to be cancelled, along with classes Bethlehem Catholic High School.
Confederation Park, Vincent Massey, Lester B. Pearson, Caroline Robins, Dundonald, Fairhaven and James L. Alexander were also affected by the outage along with Bishop Klein, Bishop Roborecki, Father Vachon, St. Marguerite, St. Mark and St. Peter were also affected but remain open.
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