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September/October 2020
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
clients up and down the East Coast. Work performed by
DRG crews earned accolades from clients including Florida
Power and Light and PSE&G in Long Island, New York.
Alex Spoly, project manager, DRG, said she had seven
employees who worked in Long Island and New Jersey on
the storm response.
"Our local staff spent most of their time helping dispatch
crews and lining them up with jobs," Spoly said. "They also
dealt with customer complaints. The off-island employees
who responded helped assess customer generated tickets,
and they worked with the line department and forestry
department to get the right tools needed to resolve issues."
DRG employees helped identify and schedule repairs related
to uprooted trees on power lines, broken debris on utility
structures, and other damaged utility infrastructure.
Right: A tree fell into a yard on the JCP&L account during Hurricane Isaias.
Below: Davey and Wolf Tree, a Davey company, trucks are awaiting
callouts for the response to Hurricane Isaias for the PSE&G account.
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Atlantic region, said all 203 crews involved maintained
phenomenal levels of communication throughout the storm
response despite hailing from varied parts of the U.S.
"It was really one team, one group, with one goal of safe
power restoration for our utility clients," Roddy said.
Roddy said the response team held daily calls to provide
storm response updates that were led by Bill Van Cura,
vice president of operations, Atlantic Region and Wolf
Tree, and included representatives from the corporate
safety department.
Raymond Betances, area manager, JCP&L account, said
the response to Isaias proved one of the most organized
and safest responses he has experienced in nine years
with Davey.
"Everyone communicated exceptionally well," Betances
said. "Any time we encountered a situation where crews
thought we might need an extra hand, an outage or a ground
put in place, they communicated that."
Johnny Page, operations manager, Gulf Region, said about
70 crews responded from the Gulf area to the Northeast.
"Everyone did a very good job adhering to the COVID-19
regulations while we were on the storm response,"
Page said.
Over 75 DRG employees assisted the response to utility
