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Princeton power outage caused by FortisBC equipment malfunction

The outage lasted seconds for most customers, but hours for three others
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The lights went out in downtown Princeton on July 8 due to a FortisBC equipment malfunction.

At approximately 3 p.m. on Monday, FortisBC experienced a temporary interruption on its electricity system due to a malfunction involving a trasformer.

For the majority of downtown customers, the power was restored almost immediately.

However, communications specialist Jas Baweja said three customers were without power until just before 6 p.m. as crews worked to replace the transformer.

Baweja said the customers that were without power longer consisted of one residential customer and two commercial customers.

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