UPDATE: BC Hydro expects that the power will be back on by 12:30 p.m.
Original: Approximately 1,174 customers are without power in the Lac la Hache area since it went off around 7:52 a.m., according to BC Hydro.
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Crews are currently on-site and are working on fixing it. The cause of the outage is a downed wire.
No estimation of when the power will be back on has been offered.
Crews are on their way to an outage affecting 1,174 customers near #100MileHouse. They hope to arrive by 9:25 a.m. and will post updates here: https://t.co/0azsJm3fKH pic.twitter.com/3JGIBHmSc1
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) January 8, 2020
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