Overview

• A peninsula-wide power outage disrupted businesses, schools, supermarkets, and traffic across Iberia shortly before noon on April 28, 2025.
• In Eibar, six four-year-old children, a pregnant woman, and four adults were trapped in the Aldatze building elevator for more than three hours.
• Firefighters provided water through an open hatch and used multiple methods, including a lever tool, to complete the rescue under emergency-brake conditions.
• The trapped individuals remained calm throughout the ordeal, which highlighted challenges in emergency response during large-scale infrastructure failures.
• The blackout prompted around fifty emergency calls in Gipuzkoa, primarily for elevator entrapments, with the cause of the outage still under investigation.