Tag: power outage

Over 30 utility pole fires reported Thursday

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com First responders with the San Benito Fire Department had their hands full early Thursday morning following numerous telephone pole fires. “We had 25 city calls, but 21 were pole fires and one of them was a wire down,” said San Benito Fire Department Chief of Operations Raul Zuniga. …

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UPDATE: Super says blown transformer led to VMA power outage

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito Veterans Memorial Academy was without power for nearly five hours Wednesday. It was at approximately 9:30 a.m. when the lights went out at the campus, and according to San Benito CISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón, the power outage was due to a transformer that …

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BREAKING: Power restored at VMA after five-hour outage

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Veterans Memorial Academy was without power for nearly five hours Wednesday. According to San Benito CISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón, the source of the power outage was the result of a tractor striking a utility pole near the school. Students were not sent …

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