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Mar 31, 2012 News
With the Easter season just a few days away, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has already begun taking precautions to avoid any damage to their services as well as protecting kite flyers from coming to harm.
According to GPL, each year the power company expends significant resources to remind kite flyers of the need to restrict their activity to wide open spaces and this year is no different.
Despite appeals of GPL, numerous incidents still occur resulting in network damage, power outages and injury.
“Millions are expended every year by GPL in advertisements, repairs cost and damaged appliance claims. This year, unfortunately, we have had one fatality but it appears even this incident has failed to drive home our annual message. On Tuesday at 18:22 hrs power to the entire West Demerara was interrupted as a result of someone trying to retrieve a kite that got entangled in primary mains in No. 1 Canal.”
Kaieteur News understands that the incident caused the primary mains to come into contact with secondary mains resulting in the feeder protection at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) severing the link with West Demerara.
Consumers were affected for over an hour.
GPL advises that should a kite get entangled in their network, no person should undertake the task of removing or retrieving it. GPL will undertake the removal of kites at an appropriate time.
Just two weeks ago, Randolph Thornhill, 14, of Victoria, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was electrocuted when the twine from his kite became entangled in an electrical wire near his home.
Kaieteur News was told that the former Ann’s Grove Secondary School student had hurled the kite string over the two live wires on the poles in front of his house. From all appearances, the wires were slack and they came together, causing a high voltage to flow through the twine that Randolph Thornhill was holding.
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