More than 1,500 B.C. Hydro customers in Lake Country woke up to a power outage on Friday morning (May 6).
Breaking - more than 1500 people are #LakeCountry are waking up without power due to an early morning fire. Power will be out until 3pm @KelownaCapNews @LC_Calendar pic.twitter.com/O2WCkz2xcK
— Jordy Cunningham (@CunninghamJordy) May 6, 2022
The affected area is from The Lakes community down to Robinson Road.
The power outage started at 1:26 a.m. and according to B.C. Hydro, a fire caused the outage. Crews are on-scene and power is expected to be back on at 11:30 a.m.
B.C. Hydro’s last update came at 8:06 a.m.
Lake Country Calendar will be monitoring the outage throughout the day.
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