AAP General News (Australia)
01-02-2001
Vic: Blackouts hit central Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Jan 2 AAP - Workers returning from holiday were blamed for one of a number
of blackouts in Melbourne's central business district today.
Electricity distributor CitiPower said a 20-minute outage just after 8am (AEDT) today
was caused by a "glitch" after the system was overloaded as workers returned from holidays.
But CitiPower spokesman Ross Gilmour said damage to an overhead line caused a later
30-second blackout at 10am, an outage of at least 30 minutes beginning just before 11am,
as well as a fourth brief snap about 11.25am - all on …
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