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.