About 26,000 customers lost power Tuesday afternoon in east Vancouver, most only for a few minutes, after a Clark Public Utilities transmission line came down in the North Image neighborhood.
The outage began at 2:12 p.m. when an insulator stack broke and took the transmission line down onto a distribution line, according to utility spokesman Dameon Pesanti.
Within seven minutes, power was restored to 20,000 customers, Pesanti said. Within 29 minutes, another 6,000 people had electricity again. As of 3:30 p.m., 35 customers remained without power.
Pesanti didn’t yet know what caused the insulator stack to break and take down the lines.
