Daytime classes, exams cancelled at BCIT Burnaby and CARI campuses

UPDATE: Power is now restored across much of the Burnaby and CARI campuses. Evening/part-time classes will proceed as scheduled. Daytime classes continue to be cancelled.

ORIGINAL STORY:

BCIT has announced that all daytime classes and exams at its Burnaby and CARI campuses are cancelled due to ongoing power outages.

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“We ask all students, staff, and faculty to safely make their way off Burnaby and CARI campuses,” said BCIT media relations, in a statement.

*Burnaby and CARI Campuses CLOSED*
Due to ongoing power outages across much of Burnaby campus, all daytime BCIT classes and exams are now cancelled. We ask all students, staff, and faculty to safely make their way off Burnaby and CARI campuses. pic.twitter.com/xY3YJB9bNI

— BCIT (@bcit) April 8, 2019

BCIT will provide an update at 2 pm today regarding evening classes.

“As of now, evening classes are not cancelled,” said the school.

Crews are on-site at an outage affecting 650 customers in #Burnaby. They’ll share updates on our mobile site: https://t.co/5dyi9gVJpV pic.twitter.com/asKG66KocA

— BC Hydro (@bchydro) April 8, 2019

BC Hydro says that crews are on site and working on fixing the problem.