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Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

Worker disabled two levels of protective backup systems

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 1, 2008 10:31 AM CST

(Newser) – One engineer's blunder shut off the power in Florida Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Florida Light & Power says a field engineer diagnosing a faulty switch disabled two levels of safety backups—against company policy—as he worked. In a bit of extremely unfortunate timing,...   Read full story »

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