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The Davey Bulletin Nov-Dec 2016

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16 The Davey Bulletin | November/December 2016 MY DAVEY CANADA BATTLES FORT MCMURRAY FIRE AFTERMATH Burnt and brittle trees crumbled like spent match sticks as crews felled them. Others, blackened and scorched, simply toppled on their own – surprising and startling to crew members – as they succumbed to days of exposure to intense heat. Downed power lines – both transmission and distribution lines – snaked across the charred forest McMurray wildfire this past summer. The fire, which started in May, covered 1.4 million acres across Alberta and Saskatchewan before firefighters could bring it under control. It destroyed close to 2,000 structures and forced 90,000 people to evacuate. Countless trees burned. Angus Hill, Canada regional utility The Fort McMurray wildfire scorched 1.4 million acres across Alberta and Saskatchewan before fire crews brought it under control. " Our job was to eliminate the hazards so they could restore the power to the regional municipality of Buffalo and the city of Fort McMurray. " – Angus Hill regional utility manager, Canada manager, said Davey crews mobilized within a day to support the client, ATCO Electric, which needed help removing nearly incinerated and fallen trees from utility rights-of-way so power could be restored to the area. "There were a lot of special challenges," Hill said. "Some of it we were able to plan in advance for. floor. Flare-ups brought forestry firefighters, looking to extinguish flash fires, roving into challenging work areas already complicated by the stifling environment. At the center of it all, soot-stained and determined, employees of The Davey Tree Expert Co. of Canada, Limited, worked to help restore power to the areas hit hardest by the Fort Canada employees from six different offices and accounts deployed to help restore power to the Fort McMurray area.

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