Thousands of CUC customers were left in the dark Sunday night after a utility pole caught fire in the Industrial Park area in George Town.
The fire resulted in an outage to customers in the vicinity.
“The fire was addressed first, after the area was cleared by emergency personnel as safe to commence work, repair work was initiated by CUC team members to enable restoration,” the spokesperson said.
Since the severe nor’wester on 5 and 6 Feb., CUC has been encountering issues on its power lines leading to outages in Grand Cayman, which it attributed to salt contamination from the massive waves produced by the winter storm.
It is unclear how soon the issue will be resolved.
However, CUC crews have been line-washing in weather-impacted communities as the outages became more frequent last week.
“Salt contamination continues to be a concern and cause for outages,” a CUC spokesperson, responding to Cayman Compass queries, said Monday afternoon.
The spokesperson said it was very hard to predict when the outages will end.
“Normally rainfall assists with the cleaning process but the last week has been extremely dry,” the spokesperson added.
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