MEDICINE HAT — The City of Medicine Hat is looking into a power outage affecting the southeast and southwest hill areas as well as Crescent Heights.
The power reportedly went out around 6 P.M. according to some of our viewers.
The city says a pole fire at the riverview sub-station caused the outage. 7,000 customers are believed to be without power.
Crews are currently looking into the matter and will have power back up as soon as possible.
There’s no word yet on when that might be.
We will post further updates as they become available.
Firefighters responding to a call about a grass fire at the power generation station believed to be linked to the pole fire.
UPDATE
City crews continue to work to restore power.
Around 1,200 customers on the southeast hill, Airport and tower estates area remain without service.
Power should be restored downtown, on the southwest hill and in Crescent Heights.
Power was also out at part of the Airport for some time but is now back on. Officials said no flights have been impacted.
UPDATE 2
The city says power has now been restored to all customers.
