T&TEC restoring Santa Cruz power after fallen tree causes outage

T&TEC crews are work­ing to re­store elec­tric­i­ty to cus­tomers in parts of San­ta Cruz af­ter a large tree was up­root­ed dur­ing heavy rain­fall on Thurs­day, dam­ag­ing two util­i­ty poles.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion said the tree was up­root­ed at about 12:55 p.m. along Sad­dle Road, San­ta Cruz, in the vicin­i­ty of the School for the Blind.

T&TEC said tor­ren­tial rain­fall had sat­u­rat­ed the soil, re­sult­ing in the tree be­ing up­root­ed and falling on­to the elec­tric­i­ty in­fra­struc­ture.

Tree trim­ming and over­head line re­pair crews are on site car­ry­ing out restora­tion work.

The com­mis­sion said elec­tric­i­ty had al­ready been re­stored to sev­er­al af­fect­ed cus­tomers, but the fall­en tree dam­aged two util­i­ty poles be­yond re­pair.

Both poles must be re­placed be­fore full restora­tion of elec­tric­i­ty can be com­plet­ed.

T&TEC said it is work­ing to re­store ser­vice to cus­tomers in New Pax Vale, Holo­lo Road and Jag­gan Vil­lage by 7 p.m. Thurs­day.

The com­mis­sion apol­o­gised for the in­con­ve­nience caused and thanked cus­tomers for their pa­tience and un­der­stand­ing while re­pairs con­tin­ue.