Puerto Rico officials say power back to most after blackout
Two power plants that were knocked offline by the fire were repaired by dawn, while crews were still trying to repair two substations, power company spokesman
Quinones said he could not provide any numbers on how many customers remained without power as a result of Sunday's outage, which affected the island's northern region.
"They'll be working throughout today to fully restore service," he said, adding that authorities are investigating what caused the fire.
Union leader
"It's very strange what happened," he said.
The outage adds to the woes of an island still struggling to fully restore power more than five months after Hurricane Maria started the longest blackout in
The blast also illustrated the challenges of restoring a power grid that was already crumbling before it was devastated by the storm.
In many cases, power workers are repairing equipment that should have long been replaced but remained online due to the power authority's long financial crisis. The state-owned power company is worth roughly
One week after his announcement, a federal control board overseeing the island's finances asked that a judge authorize a loan of up to
Board president
"The same inefficiencies that have dragged the utility for decades remain," he said. "Of all the realities (hurricanes) Irma and Maria confronted us with, without a doubt the most evident is that
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