The power outage in the Treptow-Köpenick is not only the broadest but also the by far longest, the Berlin in the past few decades, has experienced. Multiple Vattenfall had to revise its forecasts for the recovery of the power supply: First of all, the speech was from 3 o’clock in the night to Wednesday, and later from 15 o’clock in the afternoon and then finally at 18.30 at the start of part supply. And in fact, the current flowed in the early evening, According to Vattenfall, the Köpenicker old town was stored for 19 h and again with electricity. 21 PM, the repair work was completed by the said worker to the daily mirror. Against 21.30 hung then, after 31 hours, all of the remaining neighborhoods.

Dark, it was on Wednesday, then, is also elsewhere: In Rudow, on the evening of 3000 households, as well as 58 commercial shoots were without electricity, as a spokesman for the Berlin fire brigade told the daily mirror. A connection with the disorder in Köpenick was given: “It is an ordinary power failure, because it always back in town,” said the spokesman.

were Affected in Rudow, the streets around the waßmann villages Chaussee. Here, however, it was only for 40 minutes in dark before the Problem could be fixed. Cause a cable was error, said Olaf Weidner, spokesman for the Vattenfall subsidiary stromnetz Berlin.

No information on the cable history

The current in Köpenick was down on Tuesday at 14.10 o’clock, after construction of the Salvador-Allende-Brücke, a construction company had successively drilled two 110-Kilovolt lines, each with three individual armdicken cables completely caught up. “Such a Situation we have never had”, it was said in the case of Vattenfall, a subsidiary of the electricity grid, repair crews since Tuesday evening, uninterrupted, to the hard-to-reach damage point on the Northern bridge ramp worked.

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According to traffic management should be attached with the fatal hole in a sheet pile wall. “The contractors have been advised in Meetings on the lines,” said a spokesman. A planning or execution mistake is possible as well as incorrect Information about the location of the cable.

According to Vattenfall, the executing construction company has received prior “route information” to the course of the cable, which was grossly irregular. Bridges apply due to the necessary bundling of the supply lines as the neuralgic points.

For the inhabitants of the affected districts of Bohnsdorf, Grünau, Köpenick, Müggelheim and Schmöckwitz, the Blackout had a massive impact: Four tram lines have been partially adjusted, a S-Bahn went to ausgedünntem schedule and kept in the dark at unlit stations.

Virtually all of the shops and Restaurants in the area closed and are likely to additionally suffer because of spoiled frozen goods in massive losses. Several schools and day-care centres remained closed on Wednesday. The Concerned learned that it is often only during the morning arrival, as shortly after the power outage the phone network in the area was down, so that battery-powered Radios were the only source of information.

another large Problem is the failure of heating systems and hot water supply – was initially because of two combined heat and power plants were gone from the network and later due to non-functioning pumps and Regulators.

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The police have increased their presence in Köpenick. At major intersections, fixed officials due to downed traffic lights, the traffic, also, were guards, according to the Bureau, three mobile and riot police transferred to the patrol service in the South-East Berlin. Exceptional incidents or looting on the first night of the power outage – some of the shops along the dark streets had only been a makeshift barricade.

The hospital Köpenick was not affected by the failure thanks to the emergency power supply directly, laid but as a precaution, 23 intensive care patients. A crisis staff of the district office held a meeting in the town hall Treptow. At the Archenhold-Gymnasium, a warm shelter has been set up. Before the dark town hall of Köpenick was parked in a Truck of the civil protection, the citizens inform themselves and their cell phones were able to download.

The LOB had stated, on a proposal from the fire brigade your driving staff to contact for emergencies: “This is because buses and trains have their own radio network and the control centre is staffed around the clock,” said BVG spokeswoman Petra cloves.

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