Europe 1 with AFP 2:32 p.m., July 07, 2022
Nearly 4,000 homes in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris found themselves without electricity this Thursday morning.
The distributor Enedis cut off the power itself, after the Parisian firefighters suspected a gas cut.
At the beginning of the afternoon, some customers were still without electricity.
This Thursday morning, more than 3,800 homes were left without electricity in the fifteenth arrondissement of Paris, after the distributor Enedis cut off the power due to a gas leak.
"We were contacted this (Thursday) morning by the firefighters to intervene because they suspected a gas leak", indicated the press service of Enedis.
At the beginning of the afternoon, everything is done to secure the streets concerned, in order to resupply them with electricity as quickly as possible.
Dozens of streets still without electricity
To "secure the electricity part of the district", the distributor's technicians cut off the power to ten distribution stations, "which is equivalent to 3,800 low voltage customers and one high voltage customer", the Intuit Lab design school.
Dozens of streets are still without electricity today, after the suspicion of a leak was confirmed "at the end of the morning".
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Enedis said it had delivered generators to the site which have the capacity to supply "about 2,000 homes out of the 3,800", specifying that "others are being sent".