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The Davey Bulletin July-August 2022

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8 THE DAVEY BULLETIN | July/August 2022 MISSION LATE NEW YORK SNOWSTORM NO OBSTACLE FOR DRG UVM Left: DRG UVM employees who worked on the April Northeast storm cleanup were: Nick Demarco, UVM technician; Eric Greiner, UVM technician; Kevin Kelly, UVM senior specialist; Keith McDonald, UVM technician; Rich Nelson, UVM lead specialist; Bill Salak, UVM lead specialist; Jim Savitski, UVM specialist; and Taylor Thompson, UVM technician. Middle: A tree falls on a house in a Northeast snowstorm. Right: Downed trees knock power out in the Northeast. Heavy, wet snow hit central New York and surrounding areas in April, causing downed trees and broken power lines. More than 300,000 households lost power, including New York State Electric & Gas and National Grid customers. Bingham- ton, New York set a record two-day snowfall of 14 inches. "The wet snow added weight to trees which caused them to break apart, snapping poles and power lines. Fortunately, leaves were not on the trees yet or it would've been much worse," said Alex Spoly, project manager, DRG Utility Vegetation Management services (UVM). DRG UVM employees spent a week working on the storm cleanup efforts. Spoly noted her gratitude to the teams for working hard and stepping up to the challenge while main- taining their focus on safety. UTILITY, R/C EMPLOYEES TEAM UP IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST Left: Pictured from left with a knuckle boom truck is Southeast Seattle office's Blake Pintler, trimmer, and Ed Blas, foreman. Right: A 90-foot cottonwood tree is removed at Sierra Heights Elementary School in Renton, Wash. A codominant cottonwood tree, each of the double stems reaching around 90 feet high, was removed at Renton, Washington's Sierra Heights Elementary School thanks to a Davey Tree Surgery Company and Residential/Commercial (R/C) services collaboration. The Seattle City Light account's Micah Fazio, supervisor, Tyson Geldseth, assistant district manager, Southeast Seattle office, and Jeff McCormick, operations manager, Washington Utility operations, planned the project. The large stems of the tree were near a 12,500 volt line. "We used speed lining to get all the brush away from the power line to create a safe working area for the crew," Fazio said. Fazio's crew, including Frank Bar- tholomew, foreman, Joe Perdue, trimmer, and Dale Anthony, groundperson, removed the tree. The Southeast Seattle office crew, consisting of Ed Blas, foreman, and Blake Pintler, trimmer, brought in their knuckle boom truck to remove several loads of wood. "Working with the Surgery Company helps us tackle unique projects that would otherwise be unsafe for our R/C crews. We are lucky to have a close relationship with them," Geldseth said. "This is just one example of frequent collaboration between our utility and R/C teams in the Pacific Northwest. We complete challenging projects by working together," McCormick said.

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