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Tree downed on power lines causes borough-wide outage; Blakely highlights new alert system
Summary
A large tree fell on power lines near Bodnick Street on July 10, causing a borough-wide outage that electricians restored in about 2 hours 30 minutes. Council members emphasized use of a newly updated resident alert system (email, text, auto-calls and Facebook postings).
On July 10 a large tree fell on power lines near Bodnick Street, causing a borough-wide power outage, council members reported at the July 15 meeting.
Kyle Burak told the council electricians located and cleared three locations with trees down and restored power in approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. Burak said the borough used an updated alert system during the outage that delivered emails and text messages to subscribed residents, placed auto-calls to landlines within borough limits and posted updates to the borough’s Facebook page. He urged residents to sign up for the notification system so the borough can contact them directly during future incidents.
The outage and the borough’s response were raised during the Electric Light and Public Relations committee reports; council members credited borough electricians with restoring service and noted the alert system reduced uncertainty for residents during the event.
What happens next: the borough will continue to promote sign-ups for the alert system and monitor tree-related risk to the distribution system, per the Electric Light committee report.
