The power went out in Munich on Monday evening.
Around 900 households in a neighborhood sat in the dark.
The effects were palpable.
Munich - The power went out on Monday evening in the entire Hadern district * in the west of Munich *.
The Munich fire brigade reports.
The cause was a burnt down transformer station in a block of flats.
The fire affected the entire district as it was a main power line.
Several hundred households were affected by the power outage, and traffic lights also failed.
Residents had previously heard a “loud bang” and smoke was generated.
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The Munich fire brigade moved out to Hadern with heavy equipment
© Joachim Wilkerling
Power failure in Munich: 900 households in the dark - Before that, residents heard a loud bang
The disturbance started at 4:52 p.m.
Employees from the municipal utilities and the fire brigade were on site.
According to the fire brigade, there was a fire in a transformer house.
According to initial findings, it is not arson.
The transformer house was behind a specially secured door so that the fire brigade had to gain access to the source of the fire.
According to initial findings, the cause of the fire is a technical defect.
The emergency services on site have meanwhile brought the situation back under control.
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