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Report Says Blackout was Avoidable

Publication Date: 20-NOV-03
Author: Sherie Winston
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In an initial report completed by the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, officials found that employees of FirstEnergy Corp., Akron., were not aware of problems with three high-voltage transmission lines until the problem escalated out of control. When tree limbs caused those transmission lines to short circuit, the control room alarm system failed to ...

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