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Power is out on Friday night for thousands of Kamloops residents in the southwest of the city.

UPDATE: 9:22 p.m.

BC Hydro said they have restored a power outage that was impacting roughly 3,000 people in southwest Kamloops on Friday evening.

Crews went out to investigate the outage, which was determined to have been caused by equipment failure.

ORIGINAL: 5:45 p.m.

About 3,000 BC Hydro customers in southwest Kamloops are without power on Friday evening.

BC Hydro said a crew has been assigned to investigate the outage, which happened at about 5:15 p.m.

The power outage is impacting 2,467 properties in Dufferin, Aberdeen and parts of Upper Sahali, according to the utility company.

Another outage in the area of Thompson Rivers University and Hillside Drive is impacting 472 customers. The power went out just after 5 p.m.

It's the second time in two days that an outage has impacted thousands of properties in the city's southwest. On Thursday at about 7:30 p.m., the power went out for the same number of BC Hydro customers.

A crew has been assigned to an outage affecting 2,467 customers in #Kamloops. They’ll be sharing updates here when available: https://t.co/konPUXduyY pic.twitter.com/xFCjYJeUA3

— BC Hydro (@bchydro) April 26, 2025