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UPDATE: Thousands in the dark in Lake Country

BC Hydro is reporting more than 3000 customers are withouth power.
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UPDATE: 5:05 p.m.

BC Hydro is now reporting the estimated time of power being restored to customers along Westside Road and in Lake Country is 7:30 p.m.

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More than 3.000 BC Hydro customers are without power along the west and east side of Okanagan Lake.

According to BC Hydro, residents living west of Oyama Road in Lake Country and those along Westside Road from Killiney Beach to Browse Road are in the dark.

Power went out just before 3 p.m. Tuesday after a tree fell on the line.

Hydro crews are currently on site; power is expected to return by 5:15 p.m.



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Graduated from the broadcast journalism program at BCIT. Also holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and sociology from Thompson Rivers University.
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