In the Early Morning of this past Tuesday, a large part of the city of Estevan suffered a power outage.

SaskPower media relations member, Joel Cherry says that it took a while to figure out what exactly caused the outage, but that a power pole fire has been released as the root cause.

"Our crew patrolled during the outage and they found a pole that was burned. The damage that was caused was likely because a hawk had come in contact with the line and caused a small pole fire. In this case, we couldn't make repairs without replacing the pole, so we had to do that."

In total there were approximately 2000 SaskPower customers that were affected by this outage, a vast majority of which had their electricity back up and running by 9, however, there were around 40 residents that had to wait until around noon to have their electricity restored.