Cold weather and snowfall is in the southwest Berlin There was a power outage for 50,000 households and 2,000 businesses. The operator Stromnetz Berlin provided the figures at the request of the dpa news agency. According to a witness, several cables from a cable bridge burned in the southwestern district of Lichterfelde, the police said on Platform X on Saturday. It is being investigated on suspicion of arson.

According to the operator, supply will be gradually restored. According to company spokesman Henrik Beuster, it is still unclear when exactly the electricity will flow again. The fire has now been extinguished and the cause of the fire is not yet known. The police and fire brigade are on site.

According to a fire department spokesman, the emergency services were alerted at around 6:12 a.m. Several facilities that are now being helped are also affected, including at least one nursing home.

Compare to power outage in September

According to Berlin’s power grid, the dimension of the power outage is comparable to that of one Similar case in September in southeast Berlin. There, too, the operator initially spoke of 50,000 customers. The cause was a politically motivated arson attack on two electricity pylons. The power outage lasted about 60 hours; according to the operator, it was the longest power outage in at least 25 years.