The FBI has joined the investigation into the massive power outage that left an estimated 40,000 households without electricity in Moore County, North Carolina, on Saturday evening, seemingly the result of intentional vandalism after at least two substations were found to have been attacked.
After the lights had gone out, utility company Duke Energy reported that nearly 38,000 of its customers in the vicinity were without power while the Randolph Electric Membership Corporation added that the blackouts had affected nearly 3,000 of its customers in the south of the county, according to WRAL-TV.
