Ohio utility to blame for massive blackout

Thursday, November 20, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The nation's worst blackout should have been contained by operators at Ohio's FirstEnergy Corp., a three-month U.S. and Canadian investigation concluded on Wednesday. The investigators also faulted Midwest regional monitors.

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