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Puerto Rico: Power Begins to Return After Island-Wide Blackout

HeadlineSep 23, 2016

In Puerto Rico, residents erupted in cheers late Thursday night as neighborhoods began to emerge from an island-wide blackout, sparked by a fire at a power plant on Wednesday. The blackout affected all 3.5 million people across Puerto Rico.

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