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UPDATE: Power restored for thousands in Vernon

Faulty substation during heat wave caused outage
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Lights are back on for most of the city.

More than 16,000 properties were without power Wednesday evening according to BC Hydro outage map.

The cause is believed to be due to a faulty substation.

Meanwhile temperatures remain hot and many were without air conditioning to cool off.

There are still more than 500 resident in the Head of the Lake area on the Okanagan Indian Reserve and Spallumcheen who are still without power.

The Morning Star press was also out of power, meaning the paper will be late getting to doorsteps Thursday.

Power was out since 7 p.m. but a crew restored the situation quickly for most residents.

READ MORE: Beat the heat at Vernon cooling centres


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Jennifer Smith

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Vernon has always been my home, and I've been working at The Morning Star since 2004.
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