TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Crews from as far as Dothan, Alabama, and Lafayette, Louisiana, are rolling into Tallahassee as the city works to restore power to thousands of customers.
Tallahassee is part of a mutual aid agreement designed exactly for situations like the strong line of storms that blew through on Friday, causing widespread damage. At one point in the day, outage reports topped more than 100,000.
The Florida Municipal Electric Association released a statement at 3:30 p.m. Friday, announcing it “called on its national mutual aid network to bring in more than 215 personnel from 20 utilities in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina.”
Many of those workers hit the road immediately, and the City of Tallahassee shared its gratitude in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Orlando Utilities Commission also posted about its journey into Tallahassee.
At last check, the city reported all substations that were…
