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Seattle City Light reports response, mutual aid and cleanup after November bomb cyclone
Summary
City Light briefed the committee on its November bomb cyclone response, saying crews peaked at 114,000 customers without power, logged more than 20,000 personnel hours, used mutual aid from Avista and Tacoma Power, and incurred about $1.4 million in costs now pending FEMA declaration.
Seattle City Light told the City Council Sustainability, City Light & Arts and Culture Committee Jan. 17 that its crews restored customers after a November bomb cyclone event and outlined response staffing, mutual aid, recovery steps and mitigation work.
Mike Haines, chief operating officer at City Light, and Brittany Barnwell, the utility’s emergency manager, presented a multi-day timeline of the utility’s response and said City Light deployed line crews, vegetation-management staff and logistics teams before and during the event to prioritize critical facilities, even distribution of service and large-customer outages.
Barnwell said City Light prepositioned crews and scaled staffing across days: 198 personnel in the field on Nov. 19; 551 on Nov. 20; 553 on Nov. 21; and lower but steady field staffing as the response progressed. The utility reported a peak of about 114,000 customers without…
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