MAUI ELECTRIC RESTORES POWER TO MAJORITY OF CUSTOMERS, 250 REMAIN - TopicsExpress



          

MAUI ELECTRIC RESTORES POWER TO MAJORITY OF CUSTOMERS, 250 REMAIN WITHOUT POWER: (Update: 1:30 p.m. 8/8/14) mauinow/2014/08/07/meco-updates-report-outages-downed-lines-to-trouble-line/ As of 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 8, Maui Electric has restored power to about 7,750 Maui customers who lost service around 9 a.m. due to high winds and heavy rains in areas throughout Maui, including Pukalani and Haʻikū to Hāna. About 250 customers still remain without power in pockets of Olinda, Pukalani, Haʻikū and Mākena as responding crews work to repair and replace damaged electrical equipment. Please report any outages, and/or downed power lines and poles, to our 24-7 Trouble Lines: Maui: 871-7777 and Molokai and Lanai: 1-877-871-8461. Maui Electric crews are prepared to respond to any power outages for the duration of the storm. In addition, Maui Electric reminds customers to consider the following safety measures during and after a disaster or power outage: Stay away from downed power lines. Assume they are energized, or “live,” and dangerous. If you see someone injured after touching a downed power line, call 9-1-1 for help. Warn others to stay clear. Call the Maui Electric Trouble Line at 871-7777 on Maui or 1-877-871-8461 on Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i. If a power line has fallen on a car that you are in, stay inside the car if possible and wait for help. If you can, try to break contact with the line by driving the car away from it. If you need to get out of the car right away because of some other pending danger like fire, jump out and away from the car so that your body clears the vehicle before touching the ground and try to land with two feet. Shuffle-walk away. Do this to avoid having your body become an electrical path from the car to the ground. “Thank you to our customers for their patience and understanding as our crews work to restore power to everyone as safely and quickly as possible,” said Sharon Suzuki, President of Maui Electric. #Iselle #julio #hurricane #maui #tropicalstorm
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:25:04 +0000

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