Electricians work 24 hour shifts??
That part struck me as being very odd, too. That's the reason I remember that detail of the journalist's report so vividly. Maybe it was just shoddy journalism.
As any of the other locals can tell you: any of the news stations here can take a pink shirt, and one station might report it as "rose", another would call it "red", and another might even call it "lavendar". MOO