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Downed trees cause east Richmond power outage on Friday

Two outages overlap the east Richmond area
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Two power outages is affecting East Richmond BC Hydro customers.

More than 2,000 east Richmond BC Hydro customers are without power on Friday morning.

According to BC Hydro, a downed tree is affecting 1,911 customers in the area north of Highway 91, south of Marine Way, west of Boundary Road and east of No. 6 Road.

Meanwhile, a second outage is affecting 604 BC Hydro customers in the area south of River Road, north of Blundell Road, west of Highway 91 and east of No. 6 Road.

The two outage areas overlap.

The second outage is still under investigation.

Crew is at both sites and power is estimated to return around 10:50 a.m.

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