Monday, March 4, 2013

Paris area: 70,000 homes without électricité

Environ 70,000 homes were without electricity Saturday, January 12 in the morning in several cities in Hauts-de-Seine after a fire in a transformer station in Levallois-Perret, did we learned from ERDF.

Le blaze broke out in the early morning and was extinguished around 11 hours, depending on ERDF, which indicated that the current should be gradually restored in the journée.

"Our officers are on the scene and we expect to restore power in three distinct ways: by acting on the post itself, making diversions from other positions and if necessary through gensets" said a spokesman for ERDF. At 12:45, 12,000 households had current again, he ajouté.

"No red lights"

Selon the mayor of Levallois-Perret, Patrick Balkany, "200,000 people are affected in Levallois, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Courbevoie" .

A Levallois, "there are no red lights" and the town hall organizes Saturday afternoon a reception for the cake had to buy cake bakeries in Paris because the city could not cook, he explained. The festival will still take place because the town hall has a generator intégré.

Le traffic was disrupted on the highway through Neuilly-sur-Seine, where, again, the lights were out service.

Levallois-Perret in noir

"The whole town is plunged into darkness this morning," reported Christopher Merat, a trader from the center of Levallois-Perret. "The (...)

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