[27855] in North American Network Operators' Group
New Mexico power outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Mar 19 00:50:54 2000
Date: 18 Mar 2000 21:48:07 -0800
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The associated press reports most of the state of New Mexico lost power
about 5pm on Saturday.
A grass fire in the four corners area bewteen Farmington and Albuquerque
is being blamed for causing the outage. After a transmission line was
damaged, two power plants shutdown. Individuals lost power from 45 minutes
to three hours. At last report, 85 percent of the state power grid has
been restored to service.
US West reported slight but random problems with telephone service.
