Single beaver caused mass internet, cell service outages in Northern B.C.

BC CTVNew

By Kaitlyn Bailey

June 14, 2022PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. –

Officials have now identified a beaver as the cause of a June 7 outage which left many residents of northwestern B.C. without internet, landline and cellular service for more than eight hours.

The beaver gnawed its way through an aspen tree which then fell on both BC Hydro lines and a Telus fibre-optic cable line strung along BC Hydro poles between Topley and Houston.

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