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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Power Outage Hits Many Homes

Over 1000 people are without power in Saint John, Rothesay and French Village.

NB Power reporting that 6 power outages have affected 1177 of their customers. The unplanned outages started at around 9 p.m. last night. They're estimating that the lights will be back on around lunchtime.

Update: NB Power's Kathleen Duguay tells CHSJ News that that the cause was a broken pole on one of the main service lines in the French Village.

Update #2: Duguay tells CHSJ News they're now aiming to have power restored between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.