The police have since been called in to investigate the matter which the power company says had no reason to take place. <\/p>\n
It appears, power officials say, the person or persons are knowledgeable about the equipment and the system. <\/p>\n
The problem occurred at Sub-Station #6 just after 1:00 a. m. yesterday and affected some 5,000 customers, the majority of them in the eastern end of the island. <\/p>\n
The outage was not isolated to East Grand Bahama, but a section of Lucaya and areas such as Downtown and the airport. <\/p>\n
According to police, a team of officers visited the power company’s sub-station #6 at Fortune Bay Drive, where it was discovered that someone had tampered with the transformer to cause an overload in the system. <\/p>\n
Power officials believe an artificial grounding system was put into the structure which affected the system and caused its plant on Cedar Street to go out. <\/p>\n
However, crews at the power company were able to remedy the problem and electricity was restored to the downtown area in an hour and a half. <\/p>\n
Customers in East Grand Bahama did not have their power restored until some five hours later. <\/p>\n
The matter is still under active investigation by power and police officials.<\/p>\n
By LEDEDRA MARCHE, Senior Freeport News Reporter<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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