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Power Back On, San Diego Disaster Plans Worked OK

Emergency generators kept lights on after outage struck in late afternoon.

By Jim Rubenstein | Updated on September 09, 2011

With power now fully restored across a swath of southern California and Arizona, many CU managers were rejoicing Friday that their disaster emergency plans worked well for hours following the Thursday afternoon outage. 

The blackout forced CUs to activate generator backup systems and “we’re happy to say that our emergency disaster plans were implemented without a hitch,” declared Tum Vongsawad, chief operating officer of the $5.2 billion San Diego County CU, the city’s largest.

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