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By LeRae Haynes

When questioned about three recent incidents where smoke or fire resulted from Hydro equipment, BC Hydro Northern Community Relations Coordinator Dave Mosure said that they were all caused by equipment failure.

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(The fire at the BC Hydro substation near the Cariboo Memorial Complex was caused by equipment failure.)

Dave Mosure explained that on July 13 at the power substation next to the Cariboo Memorial Complex there was failure within the substation itself. “BC Hydro attended the scene with the Fire Department,” he said. “There was no sustainable fire—just the initial ‘puff’, and after investigating we repaired and replaced the damaged equipment.”

A grass fire was caused on July 19 when melting plastic from a power line behind Burgess Plumbing and Heating dripped onto the ground. A BC Hydro worker on the scene said that the lines going into the building looked as if they were for multiple businesses.

He also stated that all the lines in that area are only a couple years old, so age and condition was not a factor.

“There was no immediate cause—it’s usually by a line being overloaded,” Dave Mosure explained.

Today heavy smoke from a utility pole at the back of a modular home in the Northside Village Mobile Home Park was seen, and the Williams Lake Fire Department arrived quickly and extinguished the cause of the smoke before it could spread to residences.

“That was a customer-owned pole,” Dave explained. “The switch burned up. We’re waiting for the customer to call us back so we can reconnect service after they replace their own equipment.”

He said that the BC Hydro-related fires in Williams Lake recently were all equipment failures. “These incidents are a coincidence,” he said. “They were all on very different pieces of equipment.”

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