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Puerto Rico: 1.4 Million Lose Electric Power in Island-Wide Blackout

HeadlineApr 19, 2018

In Puerto Rico, most of the island’s 1.4 million residents are without power, after an excavator downed a transmission line Wednesday, blacking out the entire electrical grid for the U.S. territory. The latest blackout comes after hundreds of thousands of residents went for months without power in the wake of Hurricane Maria last fall and less than a week after another blackout left more than 800,000 people temporarily without electricity.

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