Local linemen assist with Helene relief in neighboring states

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Local linemen stepped up over the weekend to respond to a national crisis.

Last week, News 40 reported that Bowling Green Municipal Utilities sent crews to help in various regions impacted by hurricane Helene.

On Sunday, Pennyrile Electric announced local linemen from their organization are heading to eastern Tennessee to assist with outages. Two Pennyrile Electric crews, meaning nine line technicians, will be assisting Holston Electric Cooperative.

In May, Holston crews assisted in restoring outages due to the major storms we experienced in western Kentucky.

Farmers RECC also sent crews out this weekend, heading out to West Liberty, Kentucky to aid another electric cooperative.

On Sunday, six of their linemen left heading to Licking Valley Rural Electric Cooperative to help restore service to their members.

They say they pray for safe work and speedy restoration for their crews, as well as all line workers across the South.

Since receiving help from our local linemen, Licking Valley Rural Cooperative released a statement on the state of their outages Sunday.

At 8 p.m., they reported they were down to 12 members without power. The majority of these involve broken poles that take longer to repair.

If everything continues as planned, they say they anticipate having all power restored on Monday.