Puerto Rico to hire crews to fix streetlights after Maria

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s power company says it plans to hire private firms to repair some 106,000 streetlights across the U.S. territory that remain in the dark more than a year after Hurricane Maria.
Technical operations chief Carlos Alvarado says the island’s Electric Power Authority does not have enough employees to do the job. He says he expects to contract companies starting in mid-January for repairs that would otherwise take up to eight months.
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