Jayton Stahlhut, a 20-year-old utility worker in Mississippi, died on Tuesday, Aug. 6, after he touched a live wire while working on a power pole in the aftermath of Storm Debby.

A utility worker is dead after police say he touched a live wire working on a power pole in south central Mississippi. The fatality took place one day after Tropical Storm Debby made landfall ...

Power poles are not the only target for copper thieves. (Supplied: Ergon Energy)"He was a bit of a collector, restorer and inventor," Mr Green said. "Naturally he had a lot of items just laying ...

Linemen work on poles Aug. 13, in Lahaina, following deadly fires that caused heavy damage days earlier. When the winds of Hurricane Dora lashed Maui Aug. 8, they struck bare electrical lines the ...

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat ...

If the power pole failed, it would drop live wires across all lanes of I-780 in both directions, the post said. Vallejo authorities said they were coordinating with CHP close all lanes of the freeway.

Copper wire stolen from power poles as providers switch to stainless steel. Story by Dan McCray, Kemii Maguire and David Iliffe • 3w.

Compounding the problem is that many of the utility’s 60,000, mostly wooden power poles, which its own documents described as built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the ...