Power was out in much of Prince Rupert this afternoon, including the entire downtown, due to a downed wire.
The outage occurred shortly after 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26. More than 1,250 customers were affected by the outage. The affected areas were north of Comox Ave., west of Albert Ave., and south of Manson Way.
As of 5 p.m. on Sunday BC Hydro no longer listed any service outages for the area on their website, with affected customers reporting that their power had returned.
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Alex Kurial | Journalist
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