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November/December 2022
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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HURRICANE FIONA RESPONSE AIDED BY DAVEY CANADA CREWS
Twelve employees from The Davey Tree Expert Co. of
Canada, Limited's Residential offices in Hamilton, Niagara,
Toronto North West and Ottawa traveled to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, to help the community recover after Hurricane Fiona
made landfall in late September.
John Ransom, operations manager, Residential services,
said the hurricane response involved a lot of advanced
planning from Davey Canada's support personnel to manage
logistics related to permits needed to make the 19-hour
drive east to the coast.
"Once our crews got there, they reported to the city of
Halifax, which helped residents of the surrounding area with
storm cleanup, property damage, removing debris off of
roofs and power lines to get power restored," Ransom said.
Crews worked for 11 days on storm recovery. Once their
response ended, four employees were contracted by Bell
Canada to continue working along the coast helping the
company get its communication lines back up and functioning.
Ransom said the damage from this storm was relatively less
severe compared with past storms but more widespread
throughout Halifax.
"It was mostly a lot of blown over trees, trees with broken
tops, and broken limbs," he said.
A Davey
Canada
utility crew
working in New
Brunswick.
A Davey
Canada crew
working in
Nova Scotia.
Employees
who supported
the storm
response are
listed below.
Ottawa Territory
Darren Corbelli
Hamilton Territory
Kyle Cline
Elliott Fairbairn
Dave Howie
Alex Lima
Dave Newbury
Blake Stephan
Kyle Wood
London office
Jason Sawyer
Mike Wray
Toronto North West
Jijo Joseph
Mac Krupski
Niagara Territory
Andrew Glyn-Jones
Joe Rossi
Allan Troup
Strathroy office
Ben Lealess
Lucas Turnbull
Utility West
Carter McCormick
Larry Miller
These photos from throughout Halifax show damage caused by the storm.
