Santiago, Chile – Tuesday Hit Chile on Tuesday, quotation marks, which knock traffic lights, paralyzes countless companies and leaving millions of people across South America without power.
The National Electrical Coordinator, Chile’s Rhiltyir, said the disorder was created in the high-voltage transmission line, which carries power from the desert atacama in the north of Chile in the capital of Santiaga in the country’s central Valley.
He did not say what actually caused disorders that pushed a large strong network of land in the shutdown, from the northern Chilean port of Arica in the southern agricultural region of Los Lagos.
Chile’s National Disaster Response Service, Sened, “the electricity disorder” provoked “mass uncertainty” in 14 16 regions, in which authorities would not be any subway services until further notice.
Interior Minister Carolina Tohá said that hospitals, prisons and government buildings included backups for the maintenance of basic equipment.
At the press conference, Tohá called on the public to remain calm and said that the officials of the race were to return to work and return an electric service in the country of about 19 million people.
“This affects the entire electrical system of the country,” said a fault on the line of return space of 500 kV.
Tohá said that if all areas do not return to normal sunset, the government will take urgent measures to prevent the crisis.
One of the main electricity distributors in the country, Saesa, serving more than a million people across Chile, confirmed that all his customers experienced the failure of electricity.
Officials said that they evacuate passengers from darkened tunnels and metrone stations in Santiago and elsewhere in the country, including the coastal tourist focal shirt Valparaiso.
Video on social networks from all over Chile, a long tong of a country that stretches 4,300 kilometers (over 2,600 miles) along the southern Pacific coast, showed chaos at intersections, and people who must use their mobile phones as torches in the underground metro and police shipment would help evacuate business buildings.
The Traffic Minister Juan Carlos Muñoz invited people to stay at home, saying it was “not a good time to go out since we have a transport system that doesn’t work normally.” The most, he said, only 27% of the city traffic lights work.
Mobile phone services are also blinked offline in the country’s parts. Authorities at Santiago’s international airport said that the terminals moved to the emergency power to retain flights as usual.
2025-02-26 00:47:00
