A large service outage in Miramichi due to a copper theft.
Police say there was an attempt to steal wire sometime between Monday night and early Tuesday morning from a telephone pole at the end of Chapel Road.
This knocked out Bell and Rogers services with repair costs estimated at around $30,000.
Contractors worked Tuesday to get everyone back online.
Meantime, a homeowner on North Napan Road in Miramichi was unable to call 911 after a fire broke out in a century-old farmhouse Tuesday afternoon.
This was due to the outage after the attempted copper theft.
When volunteer firefighters got there, it was a challenging battle due to the many renovations to the home.
It took more than six hours to extinguish the fire, but no one was hurt. There’s no word on a cause.
Police are asking anyone with information about the attempted copper theft to contact them.
