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UPDATE: Power restored after outage in downtown Maple Ridge

There were 1,650 homes and businesses without power
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BC Hydro has a large power outage in Maple Ridge. (Special to The News)

There was a large power outage in Maple Ridge, impacting some 1,650 BC Hydro customers in the downtown area on Friday morning.

The outage began at 9:11 a.m., and was caused by trees being down across power lines. Power was restored at about 11 a.m.

It impacted homes and businesses from 224th Street to 216th, and from River Road in the south to Dewdney Trunk road in the north.

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There were 10 outages in the Lower Mainland, with 4,300 total customers without power.

For updates, see the Hydro website at bchydro.com

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Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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