Traffic lights off with risk accidents to the crossings, people blocked in the lift and sirens of the alarms crazy from mid -afternoon today
Traffic lights off with risk accidents to crossings. People blocked in the elevator. The sirens of the crazy alarms. The funicular firm. Bergamo, today July 1, 2025, It was “off” by a blackout who affected many areas of the city, starting with the center, where homes, offices and shops remained for a long time without electricity. In the evening, the disservice is still present in most of the center and towards Borgo Palazzo. The current goes and goes and Enel makes it known that the failures are depended on the anomalous heat of these days.
The local police have been suffered by calls For traffic lights that have stopped working And he managed the traffic to the nerve crossings: “We sent ten patrols,” explains the security commissioner Giacomo Angeloni. In the town hall, in the Palazzo delle Comunali, Emergency systems have been operated to allow to dispose of users’ tail at the counters. Different requests for help have arrived at the Fire Brigade control unit for Fermi lifts.
The Blackout certainly affected the center, up to Piazza Sant’Anna, the upper city and the Gewss Stadium area. Enel says that there are faults on the medium voltage line and that they are performing maneuvers to look for the “trunk” fault. A previous problem, which lasted about an hour, had been solved in the morning, but it seems to have been independent of this afternoon’s situation.
As for the causes, the company makes it known in a note that are linked to the high temperatures of these days. “In relation to some episodes of Blackout that are affecting the city’s electricity network due to the exceptional and prolonged heat wave that affected some areas of Bergamo, E -Distribuzione – reads the note – believes it is necessary to specify that these disservices I am direct consequence of the exceptional temperatures of these days (so -called heat waves) that have determined contemporary faults and on several traits on different electrical networks exerts in the territories in question. As also ascertained at the technical-scientific level, the high temperatures, even at nightcombined with the absence of rainfall, involve an abnormal functioning of the network “. The company explains that she has activated “promptly intervening on the field, through the repair of the failures and the installation of generating groups To reduce the inconvenience and guarantee the gradual return to normal. The company will continue the activities until the complete restoration of the electrical service, operating in full compliance with the safety procedures that these delicate interventions require ». All operations, explain from Enel again “they take place in constant coordination with the municipal administrationto facilitate the work of technicians and facilitate timely activation of any citizenship support initiatives. E-Distribution also started a specific network monitoring plan which, in addition to the usual garrison and coordination ensured by the Brescia Operations Center, guarantees an increasingly effective analysis of the situation and the intervention criteria for the prevention and/or resolution of any disservices “.
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