First off, we apologize to you, our viewers, for being unable to put on last night's news. That's the first time in memory that's happened to us at 7news, and it is due to an epic blackout that went from 10 minutes to five, right up to ten minutes to eleven. It caused an outage throughout most of Belize City - and power was only available beyond mile one on both western and northern highways. That left an estimated sixty thousand people - a fifth of the country without power - and that included our studio her eon Albert street.
The cause was a fire at BEL's Magazine Road substation - which forced the outage and caused damage to an industrial transformer.
7News was at that plant until late last night as the BEL crews worked on restoring power there while other teams were bringing in standby generators.
For a while there, the forecast was pretty grim - and engineers forecast that power might not be restored until early this morning.
But just before eleven there was a breakthrough, which restored power to the entire city.
We'll have more about the outage on the evening edition of today's news.
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