There was a brief power outage that affected customers in Strathmore, and parts of Wheatland County and Rocky View County on the morning of January 16.

According to AltaLink, there was a problem with icing on a transmission line.

At its peak the outage affected 7,500 customers.

Officials from AltaLink received a signal about the problem at about 11:06 a.m., then thanks to crews from Alta Link and Fortis Alberta, the power was on its way to being restored by 11:14 a.m.