{"UUID":"3435a88e-1b33-447e-9b4e-fda0625db87f","URL":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003","StartTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","EndTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","Categories":["postmortem"],"Company":"FirstEnergy / General Electric","Product":"","Description":"FirstEnergy had a local failure when some transmission lines hit untrimmed foliage. The normal process is to have an alarm go off, which causes human operators to re-distribute power. But the GE system that was monitoring this had a bug which prevented the alarm from getting triggered, which eventually caused a cascading failure that eventually affected 55 million people."}