Bell customers in N.S., P.E.I. experience outages due to fire

HALIFAX -- About 140,000 Bell Aliant customers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island lost telephone services on Thursday evening after a fire at a facility in Halifax.

The Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency said on Twitter that the fire at a Bell Aliant building on North Street affected the service.

It said the fire was minor and was extinguished quickly.

Bell Aliant said in an email that the company restored power to all customers in P.E.I and most of those in Nova Scotia.

The company says fewer than 1,000 customers remained without service in the Truro area but Bell Alliant said it expected service to be restored during the course of the evening.

The provincial Emergency Management Office said in a news release that the emergency 911 system continued to receive calls during the outage.