Public transport collapses and osakidetza activates a contingency plan
Euskadi, like the rest of Penisular Spain and even Portugal and France, has suffered a generalized electric blackout from 12.30 on Monday and at least until 2 pm in most of the territory. The Basque Government has activated a crisis table, with the Minister of Security, Bingen Zupiria, in front, and the alert provided in the Civil Protection Plan has been decreed. The conditions have been very important, with a complete break of the subway or tram service or the disappearance of the semaphoric regulation, which has led to the recommendation of not circulating in private vehicles.
Osakidetza has been able to maintain the activity with generators but has activated contingency plans, such as the recommendation to its personnel not to use electronic devices to save consumption. The urgencies have been treated without incident but the scheduled operations have postponed, except those that were already underway.
In Vitoria, where it is a festive day on the occasion of San Prudencio, there have been “multiple conditions”, according to the City Council. “Traffic lights or traffic management cameras do not work and there are at least 50 incident Case of people trapped in elevator, ”explained these sources. The trams have stayed in the middle of the route and have evicted travelers. The BEI, although electric, has continued to work except for the sale of tickets and cancellations.
In Bilbao, the closure of subway, tram and trains, even funicular, although buses have operated normally at all times has been agreed. Local sources point to a certain collapse in traffic in areas such as the accesses of San Mamés. Loiu Airport, the most relevant in Euskadi, has operated normally, according to the SER chain.
The first news of the blackout have generated small chaos situations. Not a few people have come to shops to acquire batteries or other essential products. The lack of electricity has also complicated charges and weighing management. In the Salburua neighborhood of Vitoria, at 2:00 p.m., an elderly couple showed their relief to hear that their daughter has been able to leave an elevator after an hour. “Now is when I'm glad I listened to the survival kit and having 13 liters of bottled water at home. I have postwar pantry,” a woman from Getxo was ironic.
“Little by little it has been restoring the supply. First it has been Donostia, then little by little Bilbao and Vitoria. The 112 has been working properly. Osakidetza also with the generators. What will cost us the most is transport,” general sources have explained general sources as general photography at 2:30 p.m. The Lehendakari, with a agenda in Vitoria, will also move to the crisis table installed in the center of the Department of Security in Txurdinaga. The Ertzaintza has explained to this newspaper that they have not registered “seriously” incidents beyond the problems associated with the supply of the supply itself.
