Power surge affects hundreds of Wick homes
A POWER surge in Wick on Thursday night affected hundreds of homes in the town.
Electrical appliances were damaged during the incident caused by a failed transformer.
Scottish Hydro engineers were carrying out maintenance work on an underground cable at the time.
The firm has hired repair company Haste to assess the damage.
A spokeswoman said: "When engineers were trying to restore power to the cable supply, one of the transformers failed. This caused high voltage to go through the network which is a rare occurrence.
"Haste is attempting to repair or replace any appliance which was damaged as a result of the power surge.
"We would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience, but we will make sure anything damaged will be repaired or replaced."
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*See more on this story in Wednesday’s Caithness Courier.