Update -  Power has been restored! According to Fortis AB, the cause of the outage was a bird. "Sometimes birds can interfere with the equipment, get in the substation or build nests which can all cause outages. In this case, a bird was on one of the transformers which caused the line to fault." 

 

A widespread power outage occurred this morning on Canada Day at approximately 8:30 a.m.

The power outage is spread out from the Black Diamond area to Cayley with thousands of customers affected. According to Fortis, power should be restored before Noon.

Traffic lights are out as well so treating them like a 4 way stop is recommended.

For a map of the affected area and details click HERE