Wastewater plant lost power during rolling blackouts. Fire station couldn’t open door. Evergy apologizes.

Oakland’s wastewater plant lost power and Fire Station No. 6 was unable to open its garage door to respond to a call if one had come in as rolling blackouts came to Topeka on Tuesday. Jeff Martin, vice president of customer and community operations at Evergy, apologized to frustrated Topeka City Council members for how the company handled rolling blackouts as some neighborhoods were without power longer than others. “Is water and wastewater treatment not a priority to keep powered up?” Councilmember Neil Dobler asked Martin at Tuesday night’s meeting. Martin said it was essential to reduce power as quickly as possible and that Evergy will learn from this event.
Source: CJonline.com.