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Davey Bulletin Sept-Oct 2020

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13 September/October 2020 | THE DAVEY BULLETIN It's not uncommon for the Commercial Landscape Services (CLS) crew at Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jax) to become friendly with families on the base. In July, as one family was packing their moving van, the two young children ran to meet Vanez Hardy, landscape crew leader, to give him a handmade card and drawing thanking them for keeping their lawn looking nice. "Over the past two years, our guys would interact with the kids often, waving and having fun from a safe distance. The kids loved it," said Tom Freeman, operations manager, CLS Southern region. "We mow on a regular schedule, so, like clockwork, the kids would know when we'd be there and come to the windows to wave." Vanez Hardy, landscape crew leader, and landscape technicians Jerry Tackel and Marvin Teston, have worked together for six years at NAS Jax. Providing an excellent client experience and being friendly to children is part of every day at Davey. Roughly 65 crews worked around the clock to restore power to over 227,000 DTE Energy customers after a storm whipped through Southeast Michigan in July. This storm, coupled with wind and sagging wires from the high heat, caused these outages to occur, said Clay Carlson, area manager. With the long hours during this response, it was stressed to the crews the importance of getting rest, staying hydrated and properly identifying hazards in the pre-job briefings. "Anytime you're doing storm work it could be unfamiliar to someone," Carlson said. "There are different pressures on wires and being able to identify those pressures and knowing what cuts to make is important." The crews worked for six days with active outages and were on call for follow up for another week. Carlson attributes their ability to restore power quickly to the maintenance pruning they've been conducting on the DTE system. "If this happened two years ago, this outage could have lasted a couple weeks as opposed to days," Carlson said. Clay Carlson's advice for storm work is to treat every job as a unique job and have a plan for all hazards and obstacles. He said an obstacle for this storm was COVID-19 because they had to figure out how to communicate with homeowners and how to do that safely while still abiding by social distancing guidelines. CREWS RESTORE POWER TO OVER 200,000 DTE CUSTOMERS A THANKFUL FAMILY IN JACKSONVILLE

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