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#safety-outage

San Jose fire officials warned that lithium-ion batteries are highly toxic when ablaze due to 'highly irritating gases' like carbon monoxide.

Most power strips are designed to handle a low load from small appliances like cell phone chargers, computers, and televisions. Plugging in a high-wattage appliance - or multiple - may cause the power strip to overheat, leading to a major fire hazard.

Charging lithium-ion batteries can lead to overheating or ignition if damaged or overcharged. It's crucial to charge them in well-ventilated areas and avoid overnight charging.

When cell towers are damaged or overloaded, phones work harder to stay connected, using up more power. Weak signals, frequent reconnecting, and increased activity from the phone's modem are among the main reasons the battery does not last as long in these situations.

Currently right now we have about 160,000 customers that are out [of power]. According to Foley, 121,000 residents on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard along with 40,000 customers in Plymouth and New Bedford were without power as of Wednesday morning.

High winds and hard rain brought chaos across southern France, northern Spain and parts of Portugal on Thursday, forcing cancellations of flights, trains and ferries and disruption on roads. French officials said a truck driver was killed when a tree smashed through his windscreen, while dozens were injured in weather-related incidents in Spain and a viaduct in Portugal partially collapsed because of flooding.

Police sources say a Con Edison worker was electrocuted in East Flatbush Wednesday. Officers found the 47-year-old man just after 10:30 a.m. near Kings Highway and Avenue D. The FDNY says the man went into cardiac arrest and EMS performed CPR before taking him to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center. He was initially listed in critical condition but is now expected to recover, according to police.

The infrastructure beneath Brooklyn's snow-packed streets has been struggling against an unforeseen adversary: the very salt meant to protect its surfaces. As Gothamis t reports, there are about 2,000 Brooklyn residents grappling with a formidable power outage, prominently in neighborhoods like Boerum Hill, Park Slope, and Gowanus, a logistical snare that has been exacerbated by the 116 million pounds of salt distributed citywide to combat the snow that is now corroding underground power cables and preventing Con Edison's repairs.

Before a home near Hayward exploded last month and sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries, Pacific Gas & Electric crews knocked on doors to alert anyone inside the home of a gas leak in the area, but no one responded, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by federal investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board report also found that a PG&E worker turned away firefighters responding to the leak because utility crews believed they did not need assistance.

When Specian dug into the data, he discovered that implementing energy-efficiency measures and shifting electricity usage to lower-demand times are two of the fastest and cheapest ways of meeting growing thirst for electricity. These moves could help meet much, if not all, of the nation's projected load growth. Moreover, they would cost only half-or less-what building out new infrastructure would, while avoiding the emissions those operations would bring.

The findings are based on several years of deploying OMICRON's intrusion detection system (IDS) StationGuard in protection, automation, and control (PAC) systems. The technology, which monitors network traffic passively, has provided deep visibility into real-world OT environments. The results underscore the growing attack surface in energy systems and the challenges operators face in securing aging infrastructure and complex network architectures.

Sade Hogue was five months pregnant with her second daughter when her home lost power during a deadly 2021 winter storm that left millions of Texans without power or heat for days. Hogue and her family went to stay with relatives who still had electricity. Then, a few days later, they also lost power. "Not only are you worried about you, but you're worried about the unborn child because you don't know what the effects of this freeze is doing to the child as well,"