NGCP Tower toppled due to sabotage

                                   # Tower 60 of NGCP's Baloi-Aurora 138kV line was toppled due to intentional pilferage at 10:13AM today, January 18. The sabotage caused a power interruption followed by manual load droppings affecting customers in the Zamboanga Peninsula, Misamis Occidental, and parts of Lanao del Norte.

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PAGADIAN CITY (Jan. 19, 2021) – The Electric power of the entire Zamboanga Peninsula area including Missamis Occidental, Lanao del Norte were shutdown after the Tower #60 of NGCP’s Balo-i-Aurora 138kV line in Poona, Tangcal, Lanao del Norte was toppled due to the intentional pilferage of transmission line parts, causing a power interruption at 10:13AM of January 18, NGCP official disclosed.

This incident was followed by manual load droppings affecting customers of ZAMSURECO I, ZAMSURECO II, ZANECO, MOELCI I, MOELCI II, and LANECO in parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula, Misamis Occidental, and parts of Lanao del Norte starting at 10:17AM.

NGCP is working with authorities to secure the area and to identify the perpetrators of the sabotage.

Restoration of tower 60 will commence as soon as the area is secure

The company stresses that any form of sabotage to transmission lines and structures only serve to increase the burden of the public, which must suffer through service interruptions when towers are sabotaged.

A stub angle, which forms part of Tower 60's foundation, was intentionally pilfered, with bolts and other tower parts dismantled. With the weakened foundation, perpetrators used ropes to topple the said tower.

NGCP continues its appeal to the public, local and national government, and local community leaders to help identify the perpetrators of sabotage and prevent power interruptions. (By JONG CADION with NGCP reporta and photos)

The toppled tower 60 of NGCP's Baloi-Aurora 138kV line is located in Poona, Tangcal, Lanao del Norte. Restoration of the said tower will commence as soon as the area is secured.

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