Parks’ prescribed burn blamed for power outage

August 20, 2003
Source: Banff Crag and Canyon
Original story - link verified on August 20, 2003

Smoke from Parks Canada’s Fairholme prescribed burn fires short-circuited transmission wires northwest of Canmore around 3 pm on August 14. The resulting power outage lasted until about 7 pm.

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