Power could be fully restored in Puerto Rico by Sunday morning after hundreds of thousands of people on the island have been in the dark since a fire at a power plant Wednesday evening, officials said.
Highlights
- Power has been restored to more than 1.3 million of Puerto Rico’s utility customers, utility says.
- The outage began around 8:45 p.m.
- Wednesday when an unspecified failure led to a fire at the Costa Sur Substation.
- Firefighters have since extinguished the flames at the facility outside the town of Guayanilla.
- The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but little is known about what caused the fire.
- Schools and courts were closed for days and other interruptions for the US territory’s 3.2 million residents, government officials said Thursday.