CNN: Puerto Rico crews scramble to restore power after island-wide outage
(CNN)Electric service should be restored across Puerto Rico by Thursday evening, a utility official said, a day after the start of an island-wide outage that left many people in the dark overnight and prompted school cancellations and other interruptions across the US territory.
Most customers on the island of about 3.2 million residents still were without power Thursday morning, officials said.
An unspecified failure led to a fire at the Costa Sur power plant outside the town of Guayanilla on the southwest coast around 8:45 p.m.
Wednesday, cutting power across the island, Kevin Acevedo, vice president of the Puerto Rican utility company LUMA Energy, said at a news conference. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames.
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WNU Editor: An American friend of mine moved from New Jersey to Puerto Rico 18 months ago. Warm weather, low tax rates, and an entrenched political system that he despised were the reasons for his move. He lasted about 9 months. He found the same government incompetence and corruption coupled with the inability to get things done in Puerto Rico that he experienced in New Jersey. He is now in Florida, and is very happy with this move.
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