Electrical utilities reported attacks on the power grid at 3 locations outside Tacoma, Wash., before dawn Christmas morning, with police calling the incidents 'burglaries' or 'vandalism.' About 15,000 people lost power. (KUOW)
The Christmas crimes are the latest in a string of physical attacks on the Northwest power grid.was attacked and set on fire Sunday night, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
“It is unknown if there are any motives or if this was a coordinated attack on the power systems,” according to a statement from the sheriff’s department. Moss said the three substations – all within about six miles of each other – were close enough that one person could have carried out all three incursions.“We do have some evidence with the surveillance cameras at each one of these facilities,” Moss said.
Moss said whoever broke in cut through locks at two of the substations and cut through a chain-link fence at the third. He declined to describe any of the damage done inside the fences.
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