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April 19, 2018

Excavator blamed for Puerto Rico blackout

  • Authorities said the same contractor was involved in the two latest big power failures and had been fired.
    • By DANICA COTO
    Associated Press

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday after an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line, officials said, as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria.

    Officials said it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully restore power to more than 1.4 million customers as outrage grew across the island about the state of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority. It was the second major outage in less than a week, with the previous one affecting some 840,000 customers.


     
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