In addition to power disruptions, the outage also caused interrupted water service to tens of thousands of homes and businesses, said Puerto Rico Gov. Initially, all customers lost power “because all the generating units went offline,” according to Josué Colón, the island’s lead telecommunications and infrastructure engineer. The exact cause wasn’t immediately known, the utility has said. Firefighters have since extinguished the flames at the facility outside the town of Guayanilla on the southwest coast. Wednesday when an unspecified failure led to a fire at the Costa Sur Substation, said Kevin Acevedo, vice president of LUMA Energy. The massive outage began around 8:45 p.m. LUMA said late Saturday that power had been restored to 1.3 million customers and full restoration was possible by Sunday. Puerto Rico crews scramble to restore power after island-wide outage (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP) (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images) RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images A cars headlights are seen past people walking on a dark in San Juan, Puerto Rico after a major power outage hit the island on April 6, 2022.
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