Where Are The Utility Trucks?

From city officials to citizens everyone is asking where are the utility trucks? If you see UI truck in your area, posted it here and what street it was on. Give a little hope your neighbors in getting their power restored. Let's just hope this isn't as difficult as playing Where's Waldo.   Has anyone seen an out-of-state utility truck helping out? Remember when all the other states would have hurricanes or ice storms and your power lines came down and then we sent our trucks out to help them out? Where are the out-of-state trucks when we need them?   This report is made possible by:  

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Bridgeport News: Mayor Wants To Sue UI

Bridgeport, CT – Mayor Ganim, who usually keeps constituents in the dark joined City officials to provide an update on the aftermath of Storm Isaias which includes the report of approximately 8,500 Bridgeport customers that remain without power.  In a response to Bridgeport’s Emergency Operations email for an update to restore power for vulnerable residents, United Illuminating stated they are “not providing estimated time of restoration.”     Mayor Ganim, “City’s across the state, like Bridgeport, need to take priority in recovery and restoration. This plan does not work.   It’s the urban centers that have high rise apartments with hundreds of people, vulnerable individuals, and seniors, as well as multi-generation homes with large families.  This is flagrant disregard for human lives.  The state’s most populated city, the…

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Governor Wants UI Eversource Investigation

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is requesting the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to conduct a thorough investigation of the state’s public utility companies, including Eversource and United Illuminating, amid widespread outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias that have left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. The governor said that the companies’ response to the storm has been wholly inadequate and does not meet the obligations for the critical resources they are responsible for providing on behalf of Connecticut residents. He wants to know what specific steps the companies took in the lead up to Tropical Storm Isaias, which had been forecast to impact Connecticut several days prior to making landfall and remained…

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Weston News: Municipal Building On Fire

2020-08-05 #Weston CT-- #ctfire-- Weston fire is requesting mutual aid from surrounding towns for a fire in one of their buildings at 56 Norfield Road, which comes back to the fire marshal's office on Google maps. However they are directing the firefighting equipment closer to the town hall area. I have a couple people on the way to file a report for us. news report is made possible by:  

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Generators And Carbon Monoxide

I amham a LOT of calls across the area for high carbon monoxide due to poor or no ventilation. Do NOT leave the generator in a garage or any enclosed area.  Make sure the generator is far enough from your home for proper ventilation!!       This press release is made possible by:   [caption id="attachment_83697" align="aligncenter" width="1712"] Visit our sponsor AFC Urgent at: https://www.afcurgentcarebridgeport.com/[/caption]

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