Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Puerto Rico are still without power, more than two days after the start of an island-wide outage that began with a fire at a power plant.
Power has been restored to more than 820,000 of the island's utility customers, the territory's grid operatorThat leaves about 680,000 homes and businesses without power in an outage that closed schools for two days and caused other interruptions for Puerto Rico's 3.2 million residents.
The company was unable to commit to a timeline for the restoration of power to every customer, according to an announcement on its website. All customers lost power initially, Josue Colon, Puerto Rico's lead telecommunications and infrastructure engineer, told reporters Thursday, "because all the generating units went offline.
Firefighters extinguished flames that affected two substations at the plant, the Bureau of Puerto Rico Fire Departments said Wednesday.
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