The intensive care floor at Mayagüez Medical Center, on the island’s west coast, temporarily was without power because of backup generator issues, prompting LUMA to especially focus on restoring power there, officials said. Hospital’s intensive care floor temporarily lost power The island’s courts also were closed because of the outage, though some court services will be available online for urgent matters like mental health and restraining orders, the territory’s judicial system said.
But school principals, custodians, and school cafeteria employees still were told to report to work Friday, the island’s education department said. Puerto Rico canceled classes Friday for students for a second straight day. Pedro Pierluisi said, citing the island’s aqueducts and sewers authority. The power outage also has interrupted water service to tens of thousands of homes and businesses, Gov. LUMA Energy, which operates the island’s power grid, expected power to be restored within 24 hours of the incident, Acevedo said at the news conference. The exact cause wasn’t immediately known, the utility has said. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames.Īll customers lost power initially, Josue Colon, Puerto Rico’s lead telecommunications and infrastructure engineer, told reporters Thursday, “because all the generating units went offline.” Wednesday, cutting power across the island, Kevin Acevedo, vice president of LUMA Energy, said during a news conference. Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty ImagesĪn 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. Puerto Ricans voted in favor of statehood in a nonbinding referendum, marking the first time such an initiative garnered a majority.
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