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One of the arguments the City of Tallahassee has been making over bringing in more linemen to help with recovery is that they aren’t trained on the  city system. In Wakulla County, Talquin was captured cell phone video of a lineman in knee deep water cutting a tree off a downed line. Talquin General Manager Tracy Bensley says without proper training this cut could have been disastrous.

“He cut in a way he knew it would spring up like that. He knows where to stand to cut the tree so that when it sprung up it sprung up away from him, and he was kept safe. That’s why we make sure we have trained people to do things like that before we send them out to do it.”

But all of the big four Investor owned utilities say their line crews are fully trained in how to restore power, including tree cutting.