Power outage affects 3,000

A power outage on May 26 disrupted service to 3,000 BC Hydro customers for two hours.

BC Hydro representative Dave Mosure says a power-line insulator failed and caused a pole-top fire.

The pole was located on a private property on Horse Lake Road directly across from Perrey Road. The fire took out the entire power circuit from 2:13 to 4:16 p.m.

The areas impacted by the outages included all of those east of 100 Mile House from the Pinkney Complex along Horse Lake and Fawn Creek roads, as well as communities at Horse, Mahood, Deka, Lac des Roche, Hathaway, Eagan, Sharpe, Bridge, Sheridan, Hathaway, Crystal, Roe and Machete lakes, and points in between.

Equipment repairs were made, but the pole was also damaged and will need to be replaced.