Power restored in Winnipeg's downtown, West End
CBC News
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 4:59 PM CST
Last Updated: Dec 13, 2012 9:08 PM CST
The power went out at Portage Place Shopping Centre shortly after 4 p.m. CT on Thursday. (Trevor Brine/CBC)
Manitoba Hydro crews have restored power in parts of downtown Winnipeg and the West End that were hit by an outage late Thursday afternoon.
The outage began at 4:15 p.m. CT Thursday and affected the area between Ellice and St. Mary avenues and Langside and Carlton streets.
Nineteen major Hydro customers were without electricity as a result, including Portage Place Shopping Centre, the University of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Holiday Inn hotel.
Power was restored at about 7:40 p.m., Hydro spokesman Glenn Schneider told CBC News.
Schneider said the problem appears to be with two underground feeder cables, so crews have transferred the power load to a spare cable while they test the faulted cables to determine what happened.
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