Kings Heights went dark for a period this afternoon (August 31).

According to Alana Antonelli with Fortis Alberta, the outage began around 2:00pm this afternoon and was quickly restored shortly after 2:30pm. 2100 customers were affected by the outage.

Antonelli explained that the outage was caused by an overhead air break. A flock of birds on power lines caused a short in the power supply, resulting in the outage.

 

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