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East Richmond power outage affects more than 500 BC Hydro customers

Equipment failure cited as cause of the outage.
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More than 500 are being affected by a power outage on Aug. 8.

East Richmond is experiencing its second power outage within the last week.

The power outage is affecting 534 customers in the area east of Nelson Road, north of River Road, south of Fraser Park Drive and west of Dyke Road on Aug. 8, according to BC Hydro's outage map.

The power went out shortly after 8:30 a.m. due to equipment failure.

There is no estimated time of when power will return.

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