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Smoke in Zarten Switching House Cuts Power to Kirchzarten and Eastern Freiburg

Local fire brigades are on site with Badenova-Netze crews investigating the cause of Friday’s outage

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Overview

  • A fault in a switching house in the Zarten district of Kirchzarten caused smoke to billow and cut electricity to the town and parts of eastern Freiburg on Friday afternoon.
  • The outage left an undetermined number of households across Kirchzarten and eastern Freiburg without power, with local officials yet to quantify the impact.
  • Kirchzarten’s fire brigade and Badenova-Netze crews immediately deployed to the site to secure the facility and assess damage.
  • Energy supplier Badenova has launched an investigation into the technical failure that triggered the disruption.
  • No restoration timeline has been announced, and residents in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district remain without electricity.