Thousands in north Moravia left without power after sub-station fire

Thousands of households in the north Moravian town of Havířov were left without electricity on Sunday due to a fire in a local power sub-station. Firemen managed to get the fire under control by Sunday evening but the distribution company had to shut it down completely. A spokeswoman for the regional power distributor, ČEZ, said electricity supplies into town centre should resume by 8 PM was unable to specify when power would be again supplied to the suburbs.