Traffic is set to be impacted for about two hours Wednesday afternoon on southbound Interstate 5, south of Grapevine Road, due to power pole repairs. The repairs are set to start at 4:30 p.m., ...

When high winds on Maui brought down power poles, the electrical wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact with the dry grass below.

The last two wooden transmission poles in the county are now gone, a sign the county is more prepared for the next storm. "Wonderful, that’s wonderful," FPL customer John Winfree said.

The city of Grand Island is having its wooden utility poles inspected to make sure neighbors don’t have to call out “timber!” anytime soon.

Dozens of wooden poles in that area were toppled from high winds during the summer of 2022. According to I&M, crews will need to clear all trees and woody-stemmed vegetation within the ...

As part of their precautionary maintenance plan, FPL began replacing more than 200 wooden poles with sturdier concrete ones designed to withstand powerful storms.

For wood poles, cost-effective protection technologies have been developed and tested in labs and through real world experiences. While these technologies cannot negate all the threats wildfires bring ...

As Tucson Electric Power replaces wooden utility poles with more durable steel structures, the obsolete husks of wood pop up in other spots around town.

Bare electrical wire and leaning poles on Maui were possible cause of deadly fires Many power poles on Maui were built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the end of their ...

Compounding the problem is that many of the utility’s 60,000, mostly wooden power poles, which its own documents described as built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the ...

National Bare electrical wire and leaning poles on Maui were possible cause of deadly fires Google street view images of poles taken before the fire show the bare wire.

Florida Power & Light is replacing wooden utility poles with concrete ones in Bay County to improve storm resilience. The project aims to speed up recovery times and minimize power outages after ...