20 Line Crews, 10 Tree Crews, and 5 Service Crews that have electricians who hook up the service line from the building or home to the circuit on the street are all assisting City of Hartford Emergency Operations Teams today. The City has 7 debris removal teams in operation today plus 2 roving crews for a total of 9. The goal is to bring on additional contractor teams today and over the weekend. School and bus routes remain the priority areas as many but not all Hartford Public Schools are open. Batchelder Elementary School is the only HPS educational facility not yet energized.
7% of the City or 4,434 customers are still without power at this time. That is less than the City’s peak outages during Hurricane Irene. The majority of the sporadic residential outages remain in the Southwest, Blue Hills and West End neighborhoods.
The Knox Parks Green Crew is cleaning-up traffic islands at the corner of Zion Street and New Britain Avenue. Yesterday, their personnel worked on storm damaged trees in medians along West Boulevard and Scarborough Street. You can check out the DPW storm crews in action on City of Hartford Facebook page.
“I want to thank Hartford residents for their patience during this difficult storm recovery. Property owners have worked very hard to clean-up their yards and premises. I also want to commend our City employees and contractors who have families and homes too and have pulled double duty in helping their community and their loved ones get back to 100%. This has taken tremendous sacrifice, commitment and dedication and it has not gone unnoticed,” said Mayor Pedro E. Segarra.
On Friday afternoon, the Mayor will be visiting the CL&P’s EOC on Sheldon Street.
Reminders: The Department of Public Works advices residents to:
*Keep tree piles on their properties;
*Or deliver the tree limbs directly to the Bulky Waste & Recycling Center-residents need to show Hartford identification;
*Or wait until the end of the month when Hartford DPW will have a curbside collection plan designed especially for storm debris.
Once again, residents are also reminded about generator safety. Please do not use generators or outdoor cooking devices inside while you wait for your power and heat to be restored. CO is colorless and odorless and can be deadly. Please treat all downed wires as live wires and please avoid them.
Emergency shelters are open at Parker Memorial Community Center and Pope Park Community Center. 28 people stayed at each of these facilities last night. The shelter at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Woodland Street will close at Noon today. Seniors and residents with special needs who need transportation to the City’s emergency shelters can call 311. Food is provided but residents need to bring toiletries, medications, etc.
