Lightning strikes power transformer and causes outage
Canada, British Columbia: A power outage occurred in the East Boundary after a lightning struck a power transformer and caused it to shut down.
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Canada, British Columbia: A power outage occurred in the East Boundary after a lightning struck a power transformer and caused it to shut down.
“The power outage affected our customers in Christina Lake and Grand Forks as well the City of Grand Forks.” said Grace Parckell, spokesperson for FortisBC, according to Grand Forks Gazette.
“We suspect the outage was caused by weather in the area.” Parckell said. “There was a severe thunderstorm […] and we believe that a lightning strike struck one of our transformers.” she said adding that the transformer automatically shut off as a safety precaution.
“After the crew was able to examine all the infrastructure on site they were able to determine it was safe and were able to turn the power back on.”
Source: Grand Forks Gazette
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