FortisBC released more information about a large power outage in the Boundary area on Wednesday.
At about 2:20 p.m., a forestry worker chopped down a tree onto a major transmission line south of Rossland.
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The incident caused outages for about 4,000 customers from Christina Lake to Carmi, including Rock Creek, Midway and Grand Forks.
While power would normally be re-routed to another line, it turns out the back-up line was also down for repairs on Wednesday.
Power was restored to some customers by 6 p.m. from an alternate source. Still, it wasn’t until 8:45 p.m. that all repairs were complete and power was restored to all customers.
FortisBC is working with Work Safe BC to investigate the incident.
No one was injured.
In a separate incident, power was interrupted to about 3,300 customers in Kaledan and Okanagan Falls at about 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
The outage was caused by a damaged trasmission structure near Skahya Meadows Golf Course.
Power was restored to those customers at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday.
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