(29 Apr 2025)
SPAIN POWER OUTAGE
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Jose, Almería province, Spain – 29 April 2025
1. Wide of town getting back to normal with vehicles on streets
2. Wide of newspaper kiosk
3. Tilt of newspaper stand
4. Various of headlines reading (Spanish) "Total chaos" and "Spain collapses in historic blackout"
5. Tourist trying in vain to take out money from ATM that is out of order
6. Tilt down of machine with a blank screen
7. Various of closed restaurant
8. Exterior of supermarket
9. Customers inside chatting about blackout
10. Supermarket worker
11. Various of supermarket owner preparing fresh takeaway food
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eva (no last name given), owner of supermarket:
"People wanted food, food, food, batteries, radios, candles, matches – a whole kit so that they wouldn’t be without food, light, so that torches and radio wouldn’t run down. They were asking us for radios with batteries. Because phones weren’t working, people wanted information and no-one had any information."
13. Various of supermarket shelves
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eva (no last name given), owner of supermarket:
"I didn’t even count because it was crazy. Queues and more queues and because the machines weren’t working we had to do everything with a calculator and a note pad jotting everything down, looking (at the prices) and because it all run on technology, doing everything with the calculator. But there were way more customers than usual."
Reporter asks: And were people afraid?
"Yes, they were asking what’s going on? ‘Do you know anything? We don’t know what’s going on?’ Very worried. And ‘When’s it going to be coming back on?’ They were asking us that but we didn’t have any information either. People were very afraid, and especially older people."
15. Set up of local resident getting out of car to go into home
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcela (no last name given), local resident:
"I was calm to begin with but it was a shock because we were completely cut off. The streets were very dark, even the bulbs in the street lights weren’t working. So, it was very very dark. That scared me a bit."
17. Pan of exterior of clothes shop
18. Set up of owner
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Clara (no last name given), owner of clothes shop:
"So I had no music and no light and no card machine. I did a couple of sales in cash and the afternoon I couldn’t open. It didn’t make sense without electricity."
20. Exterior of shop
21. People chatting on street
22. Wide of busy main street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Jose, Almería province, Spain – 29 April 2025
23. Resident testing fuses immediately before news of countrywide blackout broke
24. Tilt down from off light to resident cooking with camping stove
25. Close of cooking with camping stove
26. Pan from off light to fridge with no lights on display
27. Tilt up of resident cooking lunch on camping stove
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
First the power went out, then the phone and internet networks fell silent, leaving a coastal Spanish town — and much of the country — groping in the dark for answers.
Even as lights returned, the shock lingers in empty restaurants, broken ATMs and anxious conversations in the street.
STORYLINE
A typical town on the coast of southern Spain — cars on the roads, and tourists walking the streets.
Just hours earlier, however, San Jose, like the entire country, was plunged into confusion with no power and no phone network, Wi-Fi or data.
The power finally returned to this town in the early hours of Tuesday after more than 13 hours.
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