TVN Poland
Reported Warsaw Poland Blackout A Polish TV Camera Blackout
Warsaw, Poland 16 January 2010 - At 4pm Thursday Poland’s 24 hour television news station TVN24 reported a power black-out in Warsaw’s city centre. The station said trams were backing up traffic, the Metro was likely paralyzed and that the thousands to street, city and motor vehicle lights were completely black.
They showed a camera image of Marszalkowska street in the dead centre of Warsaw and indeed the image was pitch black. TVN24 journalist Marta Kuligowska said the cause of the black-out was more than likely the freezing cold weather.
We’re currently looking for the black out, because no one is confirming it,” said an employee in the bureau of safely and crisis management, according to another news source who was also trying to get the story.
“But the picture on the camera is black,” said the TVN24 journalist.
“The camera is black, but is the street black?” said the employee.
He was on the right track. The only thing that blacked out was the TVN24 camera.
After all, at 4 pm on a January afternoon, the sun would have set only half an hour earlier, and shiny, lighty, battery operated things like mobile telephones and car headlights, of which there is no shortage in the centre of any national capital, should still be working.
The metro was also unaffected by this emergency, which was confirmed by a Metro spokesperson, who was actually riding on board the train at the time of the reports.
By Victoria Ziarkowski
Freelance Writer
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