City crews flooded the scene early in the morning, drilling into the street and working urgently to restore power. According to the FDNY, the incident began when the contractor hit a high-voltage feeder line, sparking a transformer fire at 365 Bridge St. The fire prompted a major emergency response, with 12 FDNY units and 60 firefighters rushing in to contain the situation.
The Iberian blackouts show how everybody across society can contribute to protecting a nation against disruptive events, according to the government's resilience plan.
Throughout the incident response, our teams replaced 400 ft of overhead catenary and then realigned an additional 2,000 ft of the network on each of the affected tracks to ensure reliability.
"The whole place was dark," McEvoy said, noting that the computers at the front desk did not have power and the elevators didn't work. When McEvoy got to his room, he flicked the light switches - the room stayed dark. "I don't know how you put on a tux without light," he said.
The power outage caused significant disruption on the Bakerloo line and resulted in severe delays on the Jubilee, Northern, and Elizabeth lines, stranding some commuters.
"It felt like chaos, said Inigo, a doctor at a hospital in northern Spain. With no electricity from noon on Monday, the building's emergency generators were kept for the critical areas, leaving staff without access to patient data, broken communications due to no telephone signal or email, and colleagues unable to carry out some of their duties."
In response to the widespread power outage that affected Spain and Portugal, the Irish Embassy is offering consular assistance to Irish citizens stranded or affected by the situation.
