“Given the enormous size of the accident, its scale and the need for prompt intervention in safety, we inform our customers that the recovery will continue until Thursday evening and Friday, ”the company said. in statement.
unspecified failure Led to fire on the Costa Sur power plant outside city of Guayanilla on southwest coast around 20:45 on Wednesday, cutting power Islandwide, Kevin Acevedo, Vice President of LUMA Energy, said during news conference. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames.
All clients on island lost power service originally, Josue Colon, Puerto Rico lead a telecommunications and infrastructure engineer, told reporters, “because all the power units have been turned off.”
LUMA Energy, managing power mesh, expected power be restored within 24 hours of incident, said Acevedo on news conference.
hospital intensive care floor temporarily lost power
Intensive therapy floor at the Mayagüez Medical Center, on the western coast of the island was temporarily without power as of back-up generator problems prompting LUMA to pay special attention on recovery power there, officials say.
Four patients on that floor were intubated and transferred to floor with there was no electricity restored quickly, officials said earlier.
By Thursday afternoon, all hospitals were operational, regardless of power was restored or were they operating via generator, according to the secretary of Interior Noelia Garcia Bardales.
“All hospitals operating without any failure. All planned operations were carried out today without inconvenience. All dialysis services are performed without delay,” García Bardales said.
Puerto Rico’s airports were operational and no flight cancellations due to the outage were reported, officials said.
The police have a plan help distribute traffic with lights out but we ask for cooperation with drivers on roads,” said Pierluisi.
Replacement power ordered plant parts, official says
Firefighters put out the flames that engulfed two substations at the plant, the Bureau reports. of The Fire Department of Puerto Rico announced this on Wednesday. on Facebook.
cause of in fire an investigation is underway, Acevedo said on Thursday morning, adding that equipment was up meet on maintenance inspections.
Clean-up work is underway at the plant, and spare parts have been identified and ordered, Acevedo said.
Correction: previous version of This story misspelled name of Puerto Rico lead telecommunications and infrastructure engineer. This is Josu Colon.
CNN’s Rafi Rivera, Stefano Pozzebon, Michelle Watson, Carlos Suarez and Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report.
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