Power providers in the Chilean capital Santiago were rushing to restore service early Thursday morning after a blackout left hundreds of thousands of customers without power, officials said.
Chile’s National Disaster Prevention and Response Agency said in a statement that a tree fell on a high-voltage transmission tower owned by a private company around midnight. Enel Distribución, a domestic electricity distributor, Confirmed Same with the power outage. The damaged tower is located in the southeastern part of the city.
Social media footage showed large parts of the city plunged into darkness just after midnight. Chile’s National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said in another statement that at least 428,000 customers in several parts of the city were without power, or about 6% of the population of the Santiago metropolitan area.
Enel Distribución said it was working with transmission companies to restore power.
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