Christmas Day outages add to an alarming string of incidents with similar power grid vandalism in Oregon and North Carolina
morning, around 2.30am, an energy utility company Puget Sound Energy experienced a power outage “where the fenced area was broken into and the equipment vandalized”, said another statement from the sheriff’s office.
Following that, just a couple of miles away, there was a “forced entry” at a substation where nothing was stolen.
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