Casey Richardson - Sep 10, 2020 / 8:00 pm | Story: 310220. Approximately 5,200 homes and businesses in the Penticton area were without power Monday afternoon. NDP candidate for Boundary-Similkameen, Searchers find bodies in Jasper National Park, remains believed to be missing couple, Transgender B.C. The work will be done Friday, Sept. 18 from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Get all the day's most vital news with our newsletter, sent every weekday. Strovold said planned outages like this are a good reminder for Summerland residents to increase their preparedness for extended outages. To report a power outage after hours, please call the after-hours emergency line at 250-490-2324. “During this planned outage, crews will replace some transmission poles that have a lot of wear and tear. FortisBC crews will be upgrading transmission structure insulation on the transmission line that provides power to Summerland. The power was back on in as little as an hour in some places, and full service was expected to be restored by 6 p.m. We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. A backup generator will be running for the critical water and wastewater facilities, so no expected interrupting of those services will happen. City spokesman Philip Cooper said the blackout arose from an outage at the Westminster substation, so customers were being switched over to the Carmi and Huth substations. During a power outage, people may be left without heating or air conditioning, lighting, hot water, or even running water. We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. Unplanned power outages are often caused by freezing rain, sleet storms or high winds which damage power lines and equipment. Now the company is warning about a planned eight-hour outage May 12 that will affect about 570 customers in Naramata and allow workers to do some critical upgrades on the system. They may also be left without phone or internet service.
Valley transmission rate among world’s best. A broken power pole caused 2,000 to lose power in Penticton Monday. The outage, which hit around 3:30 p.m., affected about 4,000 customers of the City of Penticton’s power utility, and another 1,200 FortisBC customers in Naramata. We’ve been holding off this work until this spring to accommodate customers in the area who have higher power needs in other seasons, such as when they’re processing the grape harvest,” FortisBC spokeswoman Nicole Brown said in an email Tuesday. City spokesman Philip Cooper said the blackout arose from an outage at the Westminster substation, so customers were being switched over to the Carmi and Huth substations. Get all the day's most vital news with our newsletter, sent every weekday.
READ ALSO: VIDEO: Tool bag donated to young lineman in memory of Summerland foreman, READ ALSO: Serious crash leads to South Okanagan power outage. Thousands of customers are without power in Penticton Monday afternoon. Let us know what's going on! “The fire was quickly knocked down,” said a KFD release. “The building under construction next to the fire was also evacuated.”. They may also be left without phone or internet service. Summerland will have a community wide power outage on Friday, Sept. 18 … The company has also come to an agreement with the City of Penticton to have the municipal utility supply about 1,500 FortisBC customers who would otherwise be included in the outage.