More than 1,500 east Richmond BC Hydro customers are without power on Saturday morning.
A motor vehicle incident is the cause of the outage that is affecting 1,913 people north of Highway 91, east of No. 6 Road, west of Boundary Road and south of Marine Way.
Another 536 BC Hydro customers in the area west of Highway 91, east of No. 6 Road, south of River Road and north of Blundell Road are also impacted.
Richmond resident Jessy Taggar submitted a photo showing a semi truck blocking a portion of River Road at No. 7 Road.
It appears the semi truck had crashed into one of the power poles.
Power has been out since around 2:45 a.m.
A crew is on site, and power is expected to return around 3 p.m.
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