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Updated at 5:28 p.m., Friday, November 17, 2006

HECO customers file 1,300 claims from power outage

Advertiser Staff

Hawaiian Electric Co. received about 1,300 claims from customers who said they had a monetary loss because of the power outage that followed the Oct. 15 earthquakes.

Spokeswoman Lynne Unemori said most applications were for food spoilage and that a number of people were asking for compensation because of problems with electrical equipment.

The deadline to file the claims was this week.

Hawaiian Electric's generators automatically switched off following the earthquakes, resulting in an outage for the utility's 291,000 customers. The power was off for more than a dozen hours for many customers as Hawaiian Electric worked to bring sections of O'ahu back on line.