Most power restored early Wednesday morning after pole fire

By Logan Caswell Global News

Posted March 21, 2018 7:35 am

Updated March 21, 2018 12:45 pm

1 min read

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Crews continue to investigate the cause of the outage. Manitoba Hydro / File

UPDATE: Manitoba Hydro said approximately 600 customers in the Transcona/St. Boniface area were still out of power shortly after 9 a.m. Crews are working on restoring.

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Early Wednesday morning, more than 19,000 Manitoba Hydro customers in the Transcona/St.Boniface areas were without power.

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Crews said a pole fire on Dugald Road was the cause of the outage.

#mboutage Transcona/St. Boniface area: more and more outage reports in this area. Thank you for letting us know. Right now about 16,400 customers affected in total. Thank you for your patience, and if you haven't yet, please report your outage here: https://t.co/gbeF0nPIC2 pic.twitter.com/qdLa3NCeWY
— Manitoba Hydro (@manitobahydro) March 21, 2018

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