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A short circuit in one of the four autotransformers at the IPTO Koumoundourou High Voltage Center (HVAC) is the cause that started the fire and shut down the HVAC, according to early IPTO estimates.
Areas in Piraeus, Keratsini, Kallithea, Egaleo, Liosia, Peristeri and Neos Kosmos were found in a blackout, while the sacred rock of the Acropolis and several areas in central Athens, as well as areas of the Peloponnese were dark.
Big fire in a PPC substation in Aspropyrgos
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A joint team of ELAS and the Fire Department went by order of the Vice Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias, to the fire that broke out in the IPTO substation in Neoktista Aspropyrgos, to investigate the causes.
The image of the entrance of the PPC substation in Aspropyrgos
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According to HEDNO, most of the affected areas have been electrified.
In Attica, central Athens and the areas of Egaleo, Korydallos, Piraeus, Faliro and Nea Smyrni were re-electrified, while in Western Attica, the areas of Aspropyrgos, Elefsina, Mandra and Megara. In the Peloponnese, the areas of Corinth, Nafplio, Tripoli, Sparta and Kalamata, as well as Aegina, Poros and Agistri.
HEDNO crews will continue to work feverishly to re-electrify individual Medium Voltage outlets in the affected areas, the relevant announcement says.
The image of the entrance to the substation.
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30 firefighters tried to reach the scene with 10 vehicles, which for a long time tried to put out the fire, while the Minister of Energy, Costas Skrekas with the managing director of IPTO, Manos Manousakis, as well as the general secretary of Politiki Prostas went to the KYT Papageorgiou and the Chief of the Fire Brigade. According to the Minister of Energy, no human life was in danger.
The fire created a toxic cloud, harmful to the human body.
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