Lower Valley Energy Sends Crews to Utah Disaster
Afton, WYOMING – Lower Valley Energy sent help this weekend to northern Utah after a strong wind storm left upwards of 50,000 Utah residents without power on December 1st. The power systems in the City of Kaysville and surrounding communities were seriously damaged by an extreme wind storm that hit Utah on Thursday. The areas have declared a disaster because of extensive damage to the communities. Lower Valley Energy responded by sending two line trucks, a bucket truck, material and five men on Saturday afternoon.
“We are proud of our crews who dropped everything in the middle of a weekend and on a moment’s notice to head to Utah for an unspecified period of time,” said Jim Webb, President/CEO of Lower Valley Energy. ”They all seemed excited to go to help. They truly are an impressive bunch of guys.”
The five linemen sent to the disaster are comprised of workers from both the Afton and Jackson office. Each Lower Valley Energy office has enough linemen to handle standard outages and repair work that may arise.
The City of Kaysville is very excited and appreciative for the assistance and will reimburse Lower Valley Energy for the expense.
The Lower Valley Energy crews will stay in Kaysville as long as needed unless called back for an emergency. The last time Lower Valley Energy mobilized to help another utility was the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005.
