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Monday, February 24, 2025

Fire knocks out power in west Trinidad

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Parts of west Trinidad, from Diego Mar­tin to Ch­aguara­mas, were left in dark­ness last evening af­ter a fire broke out at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion's West­moor­ings sub-sta­tion around 6.08 pm yes­ter­day.Fire­fight­ers brought the fire un­der con­trol just be­fore 7 pm and T&TEC cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er, Annabelle Bras­nell, said pow­er was to be re­stored to all the af­fect­ed ar­eas by mid­night.

"Once they have brought every­thing un­der con­trol, we ex­pect that we can trans­fer the load to an­oth­er trans­former and re­turn ser­vice to af­fect­ed cus­tomers," Bras­nell saidAsked about the cause of the blaze, Bras­nell said: "We have no de­tails. We can't de­ter­mine the cause un­til the blaze is out and the Fire Ser­vice give us some more in­for­ma­tion about the sit­u­a­tion."

Around 6.30 pm yes­ter­day, peo­ple start­ed tweet­ing about a loud ex­plo­sion in the Diego Mar­tin area. Min­utes lat­er, peo­ple were post­ing pho­tos of the blaze at the sub-sta­tion, which is near West Mall. The fire was ex­tin­guished about an hour af­ter it start­ed.The af­fect­ed ar­eas in­clud­ed Diego Mar­tin, Shore Lands, Care­nage and "Down the Is­lands".


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