Tree cut power to 2,000 customers
A power outage that affected approximately 2,000 customers Wednesday evening was caused by a tree falling on a power line,
A power outage that affected approximately 2,000 customers Wednesday evening was caused by a tree falling on a power line, an ATCO Electric Yukon official said Thursday.
Communication advisor Carla Tureski said the outage began at 5:20 p.m., and power was fully restored three hours later, at 8:09.
Power was lost to the northern section of the city and beyond, she said.
The Whistle Bend subdivision, Crestview, parts of Range Road, the Alaska Highway out to the Takhini subdivision and North Klondike Highway to Deep Creek were affected, Tureski said.
Power to the Crestview area was restored at 7:20 p.m. and the other areas followed, she explained.
Tureski said the tree struck a line near Larch Street, along the northern edge of Porter Creek.
ATCO is reminding people to stay at least 10 metres away from downed power lines.
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olav on Nov 22, 2019 at 6:39 pm
I agree that some preventative line maintenance is in order.
Having said that - I would like to give thanks to those that have to respond in the wet and wind and in the dark. "Thank you for what you do line persons."
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Groucho d'North on Nov 22, 2019 at 12:40 pm
With government and all the save-the-world advocates hanging our future on all things electrical powered here in the Yukon, I find it a bit disingenuous to believe that the evolution from fossil fuels to electrical power will be the saviour of all our energy needs. The Yukon's electrical distribution network is frail and at risk from a number of small-scale disruptors such as squirrels and other rodents and ravens seeking a perch.
Even something as elementary as removing trees that have the potential to fall and land on a powerline do not get the attention required to ensure reliability from the generating company and the outside plant owner. These trees do not grow tremendously fast so one would expect these could be identified and attended to in the scope of something as pedestrian as annual maintenance.
Kudos to the staff who get us all back on line following an unscheduled service disruption.
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jc on Nov 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm
I guess they got tired of blaming it on the ravens and squirrels.
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Anonymous on Nov 21, 2019 at 4:37 pm
No, I’m sorry. We started getting power surges at 2:00. By 5:00 the power was going off and on every two minutes. At 5:20 the power finally went out. I don’t believe their excuse. If it was a tree why did we get all those power surges for 3 hours?