Residents of Moore County, N.C., could be without power for much of the week as technicians scramble to repair two substations damaged by gunfire in what authorities said was a targeted act of vandalism
which provides power to the region, were still without electricity Monday afternoon, out of the approximately 45,000 initially affected by the vandalism over the weekend.
The gunfire destroyed some of the equipment in the substations which will have to be replaced, he said. “The outages were sequential, they were not simultaneous,” he said. “There was damage at both substations and it happened at two different times.”JONATHAN DRAKE/REUTERS “We faced something last night in Moore County that we’ve never faced before,” Sheriff Fields said. “I promise you that the perpetrators out there…we will find them.”
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