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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Blackout hits Athe
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raising concerns
about Olympics
By Patrick Quinn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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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.
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nizing Committee, meant
gave assurances that genei
would allow the gameslo
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quickly spread to areas outside
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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
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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
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day. The truck driver was not seriously injured.
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tification of relatives, were traveling as part of a three-vehicle cara' ; i
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interstate to contact his company. 'be outaj
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