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Residents urge county to press utilities on aging poles, citing wildfire risk
Summary
Public commenters told Pitkin County commissioners aging telephone and electric poles in the valley could heighten wildfire risk and asked the county to coordinate with utilities on inspections and upgrades; a commissioner said he would follow up at a work session with Holy Cross.
Public commenters at a Pitkin County special meeting on April 1 urged the board to press utilities to inspect and replace aging telephone and electric poles to reduce wildfire risk.
Salem Abraham, who said he owns property in the Aspen area but lives in Texas, described several large fires in recent decades he attributed to failing utility equipment and said pole inspections are often incomplete. "They're…
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