Thousands of customers were without power in the Mission, B.C. area Tuesday, according to hydro officials.
The outage was reported shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday. It appeared the issue was affecting 14,000 customers located between the Fraser River and Durieu, a BC Hydro outages map showed.
The utilities provider posted on Twitter that crews were on the way, and that updates would be posted online.
As of 1:30 p.m., BC Hydro teams were working on 16 outages across the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast, including the problems in Mission.
In an update posted about two hours after the outage was reported, it appeared power had been restored to the Mission area.
