Nukissiorfiit continues to work on re-establishing electricity supply throughout, but the most critical areas are prioritized in the first work. The emergency services inform that the old meeting house is kept open as a warming room, where it is possible to cook food and get water and heat.
The fire service and the police are still on site at the Uummannaq power plant, cooling down the building after it caught fire on Monday morning.
This is stated by the Greenland Police in a short announcement.
Nukissiorfiit has now succeeded in supplying a third of the city with electricity, with the most critical areas being prioritized. There are still more citizens who are without electricity and water in the city.
There are about 1400 citizens living in Uummannaq.
Avannaata Kommunia informs that the municipality has made the old community center available for heat and electricity to citizens of Uummannaq. Here, citizens have the opportunity to come and cook on stoves, as an emergency generator has been installed.
We work around the clock
In the next 24 hours, the citizens of Uummannaq can expect Nukissiorfiit to supply approx. one third of Uummannaq and has prioritized the most important socially critical places, the electricity company states.
At present there is a ship on its way from Aasiaat, bringing several emergency generators to Nukissiorfiit’s power plant in Uummannaq. Nukissiorfiit states that the ship is expected to arrive on Tuesday evening.
– The city’s citizens who do not have electricity must therefore wait until around midnight tomorrow, it says.
In several places there is no mobile or internet coverage in the city, where connections can be unstable. The city’s police station is therefore manned 24 hours a day, according to the police.
Nukissiorfiit urges citizens to keep freezers and refrigerators closed until the power is restored, so that most food items can be saved.
Several citizens in Uummannaq report that most of the roof of the electricity plant in Uummannaq has burned. The area is still secured, and firefighting is still underway.
