FBI Responds to Another Attack on the US Power Grid

FBI Responds to , Another Attack on , the US Power Grid.<br />Early on January 17, the FBI <br />responded to gunfire at another <br />North Carolina power substation. .<br />Fox News reports that the incident comes nearly two months <br />after the electric grid in Moore County, NC, was affected by <br />what authorities deemed an act of criminal vandalism.<br />That event caused widespread outages <br />that affected over 45,000 customers amid <br />frigid winter temperatures.<br />The most recent NC incident occurred <br />at a substation in Randolph County <br />and did not cause any outages.<br />According to the Randolph County <br />Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to <br />a vandalism call on Post Road in Thomasville.<br />Officials at EnergyUnited said the power <br />company responded after an alarm alerted them of <br />an equipment issue at its Pleasant Hill Substation.<br />Crews dispatched to the scene <br />discovered "damage to the substation <br />transformer from an apparent gunshot.".<br />Crews dispatched to the scene <br />discovered "damage to the substation <br />transformer from an apparent gunshot.".<br />The damage was quickly assessed <br />and contained to mitigate the impact <br />to members in the Pleasant Hill area and <br />law enforcement officials were notified, EnergyUnited, via Fox News.<br />EnergyUnited members who are <br />served by this substation did not <br />experience an outage as a result of<br />the cooperative’s swift response, EnergyUnited, via Fox News.<br />The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) <br />and North Carolina State Bureau of<br />Investigations (SBI) were also notified. <br />The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force <br />responded to conduct <br />a parallel investigation, Randolph County Sheriff's Office, via Fox News