Fortis working on restoring power in area outside of Medicine Hat
Cypress County, AB. – Crews with Fortis Alberta are working to restore power to people living southwest of Medicine Hat, in Cypress County.
An outage map on the Fortis web site shows repair work is underway in an area near Range Road 70 and Township road 122.
Earlier, crews were repairing another outage along Range road 63, just outside the city limits.
Fortis is working to update us on the cause of the outages. The repair work on Range Road 70 is expected to be complete around 9 this morning.
143 customers are affected by the outage.
We will update this as more information becomes available.
Update 9 am
Fortis says a broken conductor responsible for a power outage that affected 352 customers in Cypress County has been repaired.