Hawaiian Electric has announced that it will conduct quarterly aerial inspections of its major overhead transmission lines in an effort to improve system reliability. The inspections are scheduled to take place from Monday, April 10 to Friday, April 14, 2023, and will be conducted islandwide from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
the pilot and the passenger dangling above the ground. they turned off power. after seven hours they were able to rescue them. joining us from montgomery village, maryland is tom costello. what s the very latest? good to see you this morning. reporter: just an extraordinary rescue here in maryland, jose. i m going to ask john, our photographer, to zoom in right now to the utility tower. you can see we ve got utility crews that are right now working. they are shoring up that tower, that massive power tower, and also the lines, the utility lines. this happened 5:30 p.m. on sunday. the lights flickered across the county when this plane ran right into that tower and the rescue, as you said, took hours. danger and high drama more than 100 feet up. in the maryland suburbs outside of d.c., after a small plane crashed into high voltage power lines, leaving the pilot and the passenger hanging precariously
had seaworld and disney world closed. that indicates just how big a storm this is. what precautions they re taking. will nunley in fort myers. will? in is an incredible amount of force on display. we have utility lines coming down around us. i m in between downtown fort myers and i-75. we re watching the wind move directions. every time it does, i say we re watching that, you can tell our indicateders here, the tops of the palm trees. it s destroying everything around us. i m going to talk to you for just a moment. i think i lost my cell phone communication, this is another side effect of what s happening here. the cell phone towers get just beaten down as much as the rest of the infrastructure. so my call dropped. i m going to hang with you for a