PARIS – French power community operator Enedis mentioned Sunday that one in every of its technicians used to be killed as it battles to revive electrical energy to masses of hundreds of houses within the wake of major storms.
The 46-year-old guy killed Saturday used to be running in a rapid-reaction drive deployed within the Brittany area of northwest France that used to be battered Thursday via Storm Ciarán. Packing record-breaking winds and rain, the hurricane killed 14 folks throughout Europe.
Enedis mentioned that police had been investigating the person’s loss of life. French media reported that the technician used to be electrocuted whilst running on a power cable.
Enedis mentioned Sunday that it used to be nonetheless running to revive power to 112,000 houses in Brittany and every other 25,200 within the adjoining Normandy area.
Another hurricane, Domingos, that adopted in Ciarán’s wake and thumped western France’s Atlantic coast additionally brought about power outages and different damage, with every other 110,000 houses nonetheless with out electrical energy on Sunday, Enedis mentioned.
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