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Whistler Blackout: Two Workers Injured by Electrical Mishap

by Scott Wu | October 5, 2009 at 03:23 pm

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Whistler (British Columbia, Canada) experienced blackout around 2 pm today October 5th, according to twitter user reports. Two people were seriously injured as they came in contact with live electricity, not gas explosion as previously reported.

Power was cut to attend the two men.

Power was then cut to 6,000 of Whistler's 10,000 customers to make the area safe for emergency crews to attend to the two men.

Gas explosion in Whistler. Power to town shut off. One person injured.

Most of Whistler is without power this hour. One witness says it follows a terrible industrial accident.

BC Hydro website shows the outage started at 2:26 pm, followed by more blackouts.

A gas explosion happened in a Whistler restaurant almost exactly one year ago.

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noel douglas (not verified)

at 15:35 on October 5th, 2009

I googled {gas explosion, whistler} and up came a previous gas explosion almost 1 yr ago t at a Whistler restaurant, Oct 6, 2008...what are the odds....or is this something more sinsister??? CTV news has been updated and hope to hear a report on the 5:00 PM news.