More than 250,000 Hydro-Quebec customers across the territory were without power on Thursday afternoon due to outages related to forest fires.
These fires in the Côte-Nord region mean that two of Hydro-Québec’s transmission lines are currently unavailable. “The smoke and heat triggered protective mechanisms on the network,” the state-owned company wrote on Twitter. However, the facilities were not damaged, she said.
Speaking to its customers on the social network, Hydro-Québec said it understood that the situation “is not pleasant”, but that the forest fires are beyond its control. “The resumption of power is done gradually. »
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