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April 5, 2006
CEMC sends help to West Tennessee
(CLARKSVILLE) – Nine employees from Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation
have been sent to help restore electric service to areas of West Tennessee hit hard by
severe weather on Sunday night.
The men left early Tuesday morning bound for Trenton, Tennessee, where the
headquarters of Gibson Electric Membership Corporation is located.
Dan Rodamaker, President and CEO of Gibson EMC, said the storms knocked
down 250 poles across the cooperative’s service area, which includes Crockett, Dyer,
Gibson, Lake, Madison and Obion counties. Over 9,000 GEMC customers lost electric
service as a result of the storms, Rodamaker said. Approximately 600 were still without
power this morning.
CEMC will assist Gibson EMC in getting the poles back up, and in some cases,
replaced. The CEMC men are expected to be gone one to two weeks, according to Jim
Coode, operations manager.
Those making the trip are:
Bryan Barrow, working foreman;
Ronnie Fuqua, general foreman;
Mark Heathman, working foreman;
Brandon Hix, lineman;
Trey Hoover, lineman;
Tim Jernigan, apprentice lineman trainee;
Lon Roach, lineman;
Wendell Binkley, working foreman; and,
Steven Highers, working foreman.
CEMC serves approximately 84,000 members in Cheatham, Montgomery,
Robertson, Stewart and Sumner counties.
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Media Contact:
Scott Shelton, Communications Coordinator
(931) 645-2481, Ext. 1158
e-mail: sshelton@cemc.org
Additional CEMC news available at www.cemc.org