Sherburn, Flixton and Staxton lose power after tree comes into contact with high voltage pole wires
Villagers in Sherburn, Flixton and Staxton were left without power after trees came into contact with wires in a high voltage pole.
Residents reported the outage on Monday, September 8 when a high voltage fault took place at Hunmanby substation.
A spokesperson for Northern Powergrid said: “The fault was caused by a third party carrying out excavation to a nearby high voltage pole, and trees subsequently coming into contact with the wires because of the excavation.
“Engineers carried out investigations to fix the fault, initially stating an estimated time of restoration (ETR) of 12.21pm and, later, an ETR by 5pm.
“After carrying out a temporary repair, engineers restored power sooner than originally estimated and all customers were restored at 2.03pm the same day.”