By Doug Collins

Over 5,000 Hydro customers hit by power outage Sunday night

Jun 4, 2018 | 5:02 AM

KAMLOOPS — A power outage affecting 5,000 Hydro customers last night.

A fire on a power pole in Valleyview to be babysat by fire and rescue crews until Hydro could deal with the situation.

Power went out just before 7:00 PM, and didn’t come back on until just after 11:00 PM.

According to the Hydro website, 3149 customers were affected east of Simms Road in the Knutsford area, and another 1138 customers in the Barnhartvale area, east of the Trans Canada Highway, North of Gardiner Road and west of Shuswap Road.

Meanwhile, an equipment failure resulted in an outage to 17 customers up the Rose Hill Road for the same period of time. 

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