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VIDEO: City of Powell River residents lost power Christmas Day

Transformer explosions in Townsite caused 12-hour outage
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A pair of transformer explosions in Townsite on December 25 resulted in a lengthy power outage for area residents.

A transformer at Hemlock Street and Larch Avenue in City of Powell River's Townsite neighbourhood exploded twice at around 3 pm on Christmas Day. The video below shows the second burst of electricity.

As a result of the explosions, some residents were without power for 12 hours, including Stephen Miller, who captured the second incident on video and took the photo above.

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