Multiple substations in a N.C. county were vandalized in what appeared to be a criminal act, leaving tens of thousands without electricity,
The mass power outage across Moore County that began just after 7 p.m. Saturday “is being investigated as a criminal occurrence,” Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said in a Facebook post. More than 40,000 electric customers in the county remained without power on Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
Moore County deputies and other law enforcement responded and were providing security at the affected sites, the sheriff’s office said. Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said the company experienced “multiple equipment failures” at substations and the power company was “investigating signs of potential vandalism related to the outages.”.The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines reported that one of its journalists saw a gate to one of the substations had been damaged and was lying in an access road.
“A pole holding up the gate had clearly been snapped off where it meets the ground. The substation’s infrastructure was heavily damaged,” the newspaper reported.Article content Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields reports that the mass power outage across the county is being investigated as a...
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