A power outage hit Airdrie on Saturday afternoon (May 27) affecting thousands of Fortis Alberta customers.

The company says the outage happened around 2:30 pm.  Although the actual number of people affected isn't known, Fortis did say at one point that they had restored power to 4,800 customers and were still working to get others back on line.  Fortis says power was restored to most by about 4:00 pm. 

The company says it doesn't know what caused the power to go out.  

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