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Hundreds lose power after dump truck crash in Upper Tantallon

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Estimated restoration time is 11 p.m. on Wednesday according to Nova Scotia Power.

Estimated restoration time is 11 p.m. on Wednesday according to Nova Scotia Power

Hundreds of Nova Scotia Power customers lost power after a dump truck crash in Upper Tantallon on Wednesday. (Melanie Patten/CBC)

Hundreds of power customers have lost electricity after a dump truck crash Upper Tantallon, N.S., on Wednesday.

“Crews are responding to an outage in the Tantallon area due to a dump truck making contact with our equipment,” Nova Scotia Power said in a post to X at 4:28 p.m.

The company said 729 customers lost power.

Photos from the incident show wires tangled in a dump truck and a broken wooden pole. 

The estimated restoration time is 11 p.m. on Wednesday.

broken power line.
Nova Scotia Power said a dump truck ‘made contact’ with its equipment on Wednesday in Upper Tantallon, N.S. (Melanie Patten/CBC)
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