McBride, B.C.-   It will be about 2:00 this afternoon before electricity has been restored to more than five thousand customers from Dome Creek to Valemount on highway 16 and  south along highway 5  to Barriere.

B.C. Hydro says the electricity was cut about 1:30 this morning. 

B.C. Hydro's Bob Gammer says it was a pole fire "An insulator failed,  sometimes  there can be a hairline crack in an insulator, allowing moisture to get in,  and that gives electricity a path to the pole where  the pole heats up and  eventually starts on fire."