Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Tree fire causes power problems


Thunder Bay Hydro customers on the city's south side have their power back. It follows an outage at around 1 o'clock in the afternoon according the Hydro spokesperson Eileen Dias. She says the problem was resolved about 45 minutes later.   She says about 38 hundred customers located in the downtown south core from the Thunder Centre shopping plaza to Arthur Street were affected at  it's peak.  The outage was caused by a tree on a power line that caught fire