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caused damage to their home, business surprised that there's not more talk

or equipment. lt was during those about this problem," Mickey said

investigations that he began to notice "it seems like a rash or these have

a trend 7 several houses that suttered happened in the last year."

electrical tires recently had toundation . .

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"Last year, I saw maybe a dozen companies, Mickey wasn't sure ot a

toundation repairs that caused tail-sate procedure that would prevent

damage to homes one way or another, this sort ot disaster [rum happening.

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other houses to burn in a cul-de-sac during H mm dam? Pmenfim -

Mickey said that during investigations council meeting was to consider adding \ O [
he's seen several instances when a intormation about fuundntitm repairs -~ .

house gets jacked up, it causes a wire to future tickets, alerting utility owner/ ‘ V‘ " ’ --
to pull out ot a lug in the meter socket, operators that this type or work would —' -,_ .4 -
causing a short But sometimes the be done . _ _ “:7 cc "" 7 ' 1
"The toundation repair that caused of time, we'd roll a truck out with one '

the three house fires on one cul-de-sac of our design engineers 7 just like we

pulled the energized conductor loose do when a customer wants new service ,

and down into the ground going into or an upgrade," he said. "we will look i

the house," he said. "since everything at it and put into play countermeasures c e n S
is connected to ground, and the ground to allow them do what they need to do

is ultimately connected through water without any hazard or danger. Any

lines back‘ to tLl}1|2 city mham, that: how utility would be happy to do that."

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surprisingly, the damage damn’! digging activity, rather than handling

always happen while the toundation the ticket request themselves, which _

work is underway 7 the hazard can also complicates things, according to to [a| k w |[h a n
linger undetected tor months. Mickey And many of the toundation 9

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big rain the ground got saturated, ’ 3 9 a 2 ' n e
Enusing the gmundllnlswell and Lhed He also mentioned that it's likely that re 3 d e r 5 a re
ouse to raise up a itt e more 7 an not many eve ing contractors are

thnlwas he saw that broke the We u.a..i.....,s.u,ie.n ex cavalors a n d
camel's back. lt caused damage to the as it's certainly not something that y e 5 1 y 0 U C 3 n
customerhs appl}iances." h::pen.~' on every lob. r e a C h th 9 m
Mickeyt inks t is problem is more " ere may be toundation people out

wldisprend and common than one the: who olll1lyyk.nDw this is g;ilng f0 E ':e5:t tsh 3 “
mig lexpzct, given t at not every on ecause t e ve zxpenenc it ,
incident is investigated to its end. it themselves. If they've never been taced

a customer doesn't make a claim that with this, they might not know," he

coserv is responsible tor an incident, said.

his investigations are typically wrapped , .

up quickly, so there are likely dozens 1‘ V“ f“ “ “‘f:“°“’“"k"“‘_"“5 "“° Mai E v! N awe ll“
otother incidents that have gone WE“ ""°¥ °"‘" "‘“ ‘ “'9 V°“’ .

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"we have an outside contractor that 811 betore they dig and request that V I L V I

comes in and gives us expzn torensic they also contact the electric company ,, _,. ,—r n , 1 ,, ., 7 , . i. , . ,
assistance on cermin cases, so we've to ensure this type nf damage doesn't 9‘ ‘ ‘—‘ *5“ ‘ ‘ “ '3 5‘ ‘’' ‘ """” “ "‘ ""
learned a lot more about this. I'm sure occur.

we have had a bunch ui these in the .

past that we didn't know about. I'm 0”" 3"‘ ““"“Y‘ '9” “'2 5"“ P"‘“" . gm I 3 1 Eu 15