Roughly 15,000 human beings in Washington state wakened without electricity Christmas morning after three substations have been vandalized in the early morning hours.

The vandalism commenced as early as 2:30 a.M. Sunday while a substation controlled by way of Puget Sound Energy become damaged and lost energy.

About 7,700 customers misplaced strength, but had it restored by way of 5 a.M., in keeping with a organization spokesperson.

Another substation was placed out of service via the paintings of vandals at five:30 a.M., Tacoma Public Utilities mentioned, observed via a 2d substation shortly after, the sheriff’s office said.

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The outages affected about 7,300 customers. The software corporation restored electricity to all but 2,seven hundred clients just before noon.

In all 3 instances, a person broke right into a fenced-off location close to the substations and broken equipment that positioned the substations temporarily out of order. It’s unclear if the attack become coordinated and the way the equipment become broken.

Earlier this month, software agencies spent days fixing a substation that were shot and broken in North Carolina causing a huge strength outage. There have been no arrests as officials continue to investigate.