Calgary firefighters responded to hundreds of outage calls during the hefty rain storm

Firefighters are a lot less busy on Wednesday dealing with wind-related calls than they were Tuesday after responding to more than 200 calls over the past 30 hours.

Widespread power outages in the city Tuesday were caused by hazardous gusts reaching 90 km/per hour, but Enmax isn’t reporting any Wednesday.

Carol Henke with the Calgary Fire Department says they’ve responded to 120 calls about hazards, like trees or power lines being knocked down, dangerous debris on the road, or construction material flying around.

“Separate from that number we attended 93 electrical hazards. So that’s where trees came down on power lines or power lines came down on their own or an electrical box was struck, anything that has something to do with an electrical hazard,” said Henke.

Luckily no injuries were reported, and Enmax was able to restore all of yesterday’s outages.

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Henke says when it’s safe to do so, you should inspect your property.

“Check for any broken branches and remove those [and] get those cutoff, call an arborist if you can’t do it yourself so that they aren’t a risk the next time we have strong winds,” said Henke.

–With files from Chris Bowen