“When Northeast Florida is hit by major storms, our fellow utilities are always here to help us,” said JEA Interim Managing Director & CEO Jody Brooks. <\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 On Saturday, JEA electric and vegetation crews were sent to Alabama to provide mutual aid assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaias.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Northeast Florida is hit by major storms, our fellow utilities are always here to help us,\u201d JEA Interim Managing Director and CEO Jody Brooks said. \u201cWhen we get a request for assistance, JEA is always happy to do what we can to help our neighboring communities get back up and running.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hurricane Isaias made landfall on Friday as a category two hurricane near Destin. More than 670,000 households have gone without power in the Florida Panhandle region.<\/p>\n
Forty JEA electric crew members are assisting with power restoration in Dothan and Evergreen, Alabama. JEA has sent 15 tree-trimming crew members to Demopolis, Alabama to help assist in clearing fallen trees and debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“When Northeast Florida is hit by major storms, our fellow utilities are always here to help us,” said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-425921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}