As the heat index pushed past 110 degrees on July 3, Con Edison cut power on purpose. The company temporarily shut off electric service to roughly 9,800 residential and commercial customers in Southwest Queens, a deliberate move to make repairs faster and stop outages from spreading wider, according to amNewYork and Con Edison’s own press releases.
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Con Ed cut power to 9,800 Queens homes to save the grid, then handed out dry ice on a Bushwick corner
Con Edison deliberately shut off power to 9,800 customers in Southwest Queens during a heatwave to prevent wider outages, then distributed dry ice in Bushwick to help residents preserve food. Power was also reduced for 400,000 across Brooklyn and Queens.
Con Ed cut power to 9,800 Queens homes to save the grid, then handed out dry ice on a Bushwick corner
Con Edison deliberately shut off power to 9,800 customers in Southwest Queens during a heatwave to prevent wider outages, then distributed dry ice in Bushwick to help residents preserve food. Power was also reduced for 400,000 across Brooklyn and Queens.
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