6PM UPDATE: All power has been restored to Saint John energy customers.
A major outage in Saint John has impacted 9500 Saint John Energy customers in the south and north ends of the city. Saint John Energy says they’re experiencing an outage because of loss of supply from NB at three of their substations in the city.
We are experiencing an outage due to loss of supply from NB Power at 3 of our substations in the City. ETR being determined.
— Saint John Energy (@SJENERGY) September 13, 2016
You can check out video from the uptown during this outage on our Twitter page @chsjnews.
The SJFD are busy responding to many fire alarms brought on by the outage. pic.twitter.com/Um4ZpY44wr
— CHSJ News (@chsjnews) September 13, 2016
People leaving the City Market due to a lack of power. 2 cruise ships are in Port today bringing many extra people pic.twitter.com/m2T4A9U5VL
— CHSJ News (@chsjnews) September 13, 2016