(Columbus, NE) -- Nebraska Public Power District’s (NPPD) mutual aid team has wrapped up work in Augusta, Georgia and is on standby to support mutual aid efforts in Florida following Hurricane Milton.
The mutual aid team is now pre-staging in Covington, Georgia and will travel to Florida Friday morning. The team is currently planning to assist the Orlando Utility Commission. The 15-man crew, including 12-line technicians, one fleet technician, and two supervisors departed from the York Operations Center Thursday, October 3 and responded to Augusta, Georgia to support Georgia Power following the destruction left by Hurricane Helene.
At the peak, Georgia Power had over 141,000 customers without power, which had been reduced to just over 1,500 customer outages this (Thursday) morning. NPPD’s mutual aid crew includes technicians from Ainsworth, Atkinson, Bassett, Chadron, Humboldt, Kearney, Lexington, Norfolk, O’Neill, Plattsmouth, and Ravenna.