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UPDATE Christmas Day power outage believed to be caused by equipment failure: 5 homes affected.

BC Hydro is reporting a Christmas power outage in Chetwynd affecting around five customers on Wednesday morning

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Update #1 (11:36 p.m. December 25th): Service has been restored, cause believed to be equipment failure.

CHETWYND, B.C. — A Christmas power outage in Chetwynd on Wednesday morning was believed to be caused by an equipment failure.

Five customers on Jackfish Lake Road were affected and service has been restored, according to the power company’s latest update at 11:26 a.m. on December 25th.

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Power was expected to be restored around noon, according to an earlier update on BC Hydro’s website. 

Energeticcity.ca will update this story as more information becomes available.

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