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Officials demand answers as crews work to restore power after another Puerto Rico blackout

2025-04-30 22:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling

Headlights illuminate cobblestone streets in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, during an island-wide blackout, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Alejandro Granadillo/AP hide caption toggle caption Alejandro Granadillo/AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Crews worked early Thursday to restore power to Puerto Rico after a blackout across the entire island that affected the main international airport, several hospitals and hotels filled with Easter vacationers. The outage that began past noon Wednesday left 1.4 million customers without electricity and 328,000 without water. At least 231,000 customers, or 16%, had power back at the end of the day. Officials expected 90% of customers to have power back within 48 to 72 hours after the outage. "This is a shame for the people of Puerto Rico that we have a problem of this magnitude," said Gov. Jenniffer González, who cut her weeklong vacation short and returned to Puerto Rico on Wednesday evening. The blackout snarled traffic, forced hundreds of businesses to close...


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