Melbourne's Worst Blackout

A massive power blackout across Victoria today left 200,0000 homes without electricity and threw Melbourne's public transport system and road network into chaos.
As the state sweltered, power supplies were cut across Melbourne, Geelong and northern and eastern Victoria when bushfires near Benalla burnt a main power line between Victoria and NSW.
"It was a day of extreme electricity demand and the bushfires led to the tripping of the major transmission line between Victoria and NSW so that we weren't able to draw on that power as we normally do," Paul Price of the national electricity grid supervisor NEMMCO said.
"It wasn't that there wasn't enough capacity, there was an inability to transport it."
Mr Price said there was a all-time record set today for electricity demand and about 200,000 homes were affected by the blackout.
He said an assessment would be made for tomorrow depending on bushfire activity overnight.