Large power outage in the interior – been going on for several hours – Norra Västerbotten

A large power outage has hit the Malå, Norsjö and Lycksele municipalities on Monday afternoon.

It is currently unclear to say how many customers were affected when the outage was the largest, but according to the Skellefteå kraft’s communicator, Mimmi Jonsson, it was at 19 o’clock about 1,500 customers without power.

Right now we have 662 customers without power in Norsjö, Malå and Lycksele municipalities, ” she says to Norran at 21.30.

There is a total of five wires broken during the day. According to readers who contacted Norran became a large part of the rural district, and perhaps the entire society, without power at the 18-time.

– a Tree has fallen across the wires, due to the fact that it has been snowing. There began to be disturbances in Lycksele after lunch, and at 14.30 we started to get interference in Malå, sweden.

the power Outage also led to the delivery of district heating has been interference. It is unclear when the power is back of all households.

– We have fitters in the field to fix this. They will continue to work until it is ready, ” says Mimmi Jonsson.