"What is going on in this city?"
"Based on what information were which decisions made? Why was it not treated as a disaster sooner?"
"I would say that in a winter situation, where 100,000 people are without electricity, the crisis team should have recognized the scale of the event immediately,"
An arson attack on January 3 left about 45,000 households in southwestern Berlin without power for several days. Thousands of residents, many elderly, disabled or in need of care, relied on the city's emergency disaster relief services and reported poor information, insufficient emergency generators, and dependence on charities such as the Red Cross. Other German states provided assistance; North Rhine-Westphalia supplied generators and firefighters. Officials and infrastructure experts questioned why authorities did not more quickly recognize the outage's scale, what information guided decisions, and why the situation was not treated as a disaster sooner.
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