A power outage brought the entire city of Quesnel to a halt on Monday morning (June 25).
The outage occurred shortly after 8:30 a.m. as B.C. Hydro crews were doing some maintenance work on one of the transmission lines says Dave Mosure, the community relations coordinator for Northern B.C. for B.C. Hydro.
“When they opened a switch there was a malfunction,” he explains.
“[The crew] did some switching to bypass the offending piece of equipment as quickly as they could, which was shortly after nine.”
Mosure says 12,016 were affected by the outage.
Crews will be heading to an outage affecting 2,500 customers in #Quesnel. They'll provide updates as available on our mobile site: https://t.co/uafGOseAKv pic.twitter.com/vu72v3r98J
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) June 25, 2018
B.C Hydro breaks Quesnel down into four sections, all of which lost power.
These include: West of Red Bluff Road and south of Baker Creek Road; east of Bryce Road; east of Garner Road and; east of Glassford Road, south of Quesnel Canyon Road.
“When you’re working on the transmission level voltages you wind up with a much larger affected area,” Mosure says.
“In this case it just comes down to a piece of defective equipment breaking.”
To report an outage, call 1-800 BCHYDRO
ronan.odoherty@quesnelobserver.com
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