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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 W0| THE BATTaiI Blackout hits Athe • • raising concerns about Olympics By Patrick Quinn THE ASSOCIATED PRESS r' • ATHENS, Greece — The worst blackout in more than a decade hit Athens and southern Greece on Monday, leaving millions swelter ing in a heat wave and raising con cerns about whether the lights will go out at next month’s Olympics. The government blamed the outage on “mismanagement” of the electricity grid. Still, of ficials promised the network was ready to handle the Aug. 13-29 Olympics. But it was yet another hurdle in Athens’ attempt to convince the world it is ready to host well-run and safe games. Olympics prepa rations have come under criticism because of construction delays and concerns over security ar rangements to stop terror attacks. The blackout with pledges that the 01 are in no danger of going There was more thane power for a ‘ ‘smooth and» knocked out air condition ers as afternoon temperatures soared to 104 degrees Mon day. The power failure created enormous traf fic jams from failed traffic sig nals and stalled electric trolleys. Hundreds of passengers on the Athens sub way were forced to leave trains and walk, and the fire depart ment received hundreds of calls about peo- rupted” How of electricity whole country during pics. Development Ministerl iris Sioufas said. He also noted that five tional electrical substations to go into operation nexit to lower the chances ofp spikes. Substationsareelet facilities where the incoming circuits is and the current is distribui other lines. The Athens Olympic! nizing Committee, meant gave assurances that genei would allow the gameslo ceed even if there’s anol outage. It said protections place for everything a the gij Br “The allege /oung a mm & 1 hows 1 Desp ited wit he circ 1,000 tc “Myj outl lik< leal eng m surp Blackout hits parts of Greece A widespread power outage hit Athens, Greece, on Monday and quickly spread to areas outside the capital. YUGO BULGARIA MAC ALB. # Larissa ^ TURK. Marathon TO Athens^ </> Ionian <> Sea o loom. CH] Affected by blackout 0 100 km SOURCE: ESRI AP cludinj and bm ing equip “A incident not affect competit schedule the casting oil games,’ committed of the Athens home to ly 5 people, an estima million s are ex in Gree August. pie trapped in elevators. In one embarrassing moment for the government, Transport Min ister Mihalis Liapis was making a test run to showcase a new Olym pic rail link from central Athens to the airport — and got stranded en route when the power failed. Government officials said generators had to be pressed into service at Olympic venues. The domino-effect outages were traced to an imbalanced flow of electricity that shut down four power-generating stations, according to a senior govern ment official who spoke on con dition of anonymity. Greece’s Public Power Coip. did not explain what caused the black out, saying only that it knocked out four major plants. The company — an Olympic sponsor — blamed the state-owned grid operator for the outage. Others members of the Greek government flooded the media The blackout began all! p.m. in Athens and qi spread. Outages were repod ' far as Larissa, 155 mile til of Athens, and the port of! amata, 175 miles to thesoiit also included some islands® Aegean and Ionian seas. ,i Power was restored to Id: cent of the region in ate; hour and to all of Athens® over three hours. Remote^ were affected longer. It was initially power outage was due toj creased demand in air er usage because of the heat chief cause for most bl in Greece. Last summer, was left without power fot eral hours because of i air conditioner use. However, Sioufas sa cut was not due a lack off® but mainly due to mismait ment of the high-voltage goi I Last T1 In to the leters. T | Many ; Ig policy letfiocl is JMt is h; W ow n sa J Rodney ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — Driver fatigue may have beenafact| e P d y the crash of a sport utility vehicle that killed four Venezuelan fife® t le ers and critically injured a fifth over the weekend, investigatorss8)|r lnes > P 1 The firefighters’ SUV struck the rear of a semi truck on thew ^'d- der of Interstate 10 early Sunday. I ^ ere Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Dana Cothrenl n( !been Four Venezuelan :ers die in eras firefighti Pngestio the driver of the firefighters’ westbound Explorer drifted shoulder just after 6:30 a.m., striking the truck which had beside the interstate. Cothren said the impact pushed the truck, which did not trailer, off the shoulder. Two women and two men, including the SUV’s driver, died*! scene. A fifth person was taken by helicopter to Memorial Herf j Hospital in Houston and remained in critical condition early !§ day. The truck driver was not seriously injured. 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