Ecuador hit by a nationwide blackout

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Ecuador was hit with a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, leaving the nation’s 17 million people without power, after a transmission line failure caused a “cascade disconnection.”

Ecuador was hit with a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, leaving the nation’s 17 million people without power. “The immediate report that we received from the CENACE is that there is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service on a national scale,” the country’s Public Infrastructure Minister Roberto Luque wrote on X. “We are concentrating all our efforts on resolving the problem as quickly as possible,” he added.

Both hospitals were able to rely on electricity from their generators shortly after the cut began. In the nation’s largest city of Guayaquil, the blackout also briefly affected two other hospitals. “The power was cut but we have our own ” a doctor from Guayaquil’s Luis Vernaza hospital said. CNN has reached out to the country’s Health Ministry to ask if there are hospitals currently without electricity. Guayaquil residents are having to deal with the outage amid 90-degree Fahrenheit heat.

 

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