曼哈頓停電，整個城市陷入黑暗

曼哈頓停電，整個城市陷入黑暗

There's mayhem in Manhattan, where a massive power outage has plunged a huge part of New York into darkness.

曼哈頓一片混亂，一場大規(guī)模停電使紐約大部分地區(qū)陷入黑暗。

The blackout, just before nightfall on Saturday (local time) has affected more than 42,000 customers around Times Square and midtown Manhattan, CNN reported.

據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)報道，周六(當?shù)貢r間7-13日)傍晚時分，紐約時代廣場和曼哈頓中城附近超過4.2萬名顧客受到停電影響。

Thousands of people are on the streets with nowhere to go, with multiple subway stations in the dark and traffic light systems out, and people are reportedly stuck in lifts in their apartment buildings.

成千上萬的人在大街上無處可去，多個地鐵站一片黑暗，交通信號燈也熄滅了，據(jù)報道，有人被困在公寓樓的電梯里。

New York mayor Bill de Blasio says the outage appears to have been caused by a mechanical problem which triggered a number of transformer fires. They are not believed to be suspicious.

紐約市長白思豪表示，停電是因機械故障引發(fā)的多起變壓器火災所導致，沒有可疑情況。

"This appears to be something that just went wrong in the way that they transmit power from one part of the city to another," he told CNN. "It sounds like it is addressable in a reasonable amount of time."

他對CNN說：“這似乎是他們把電力從城市的一個地方傳送到另一個地方的方式出了問題。”聽起來它在合理的時間內(nèi)是可以尋址的。”

The power went out about 7pm.

停電發(fā)生在晚上7點左右。

Crews are frantically trying to restore power to the city that never sleeps heading into Saturday night.

工作人員正瘋狂地試圖恢復這座周六不夜城的電力供應。

Coincedentally, the outage comes 42 years to the day Manhattan had a two-day power outage, which resulted in looting and arson, Fox News reports.

?？怂剐侣剤蟮婪Q，42年前的今天，曼哈頓也發(fā)生了兩天的停電事故，并導致?lián)尳俸涂v火事件。