CWLâs preparedness kept lights on
CWL on minimal power and water outages. By Miranda Reynolds | February 22, 2021 at 8:16 PM CST - Updated February 22 at 8:16 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Many in Region 8 last week saw their lights out or were without water due to snow and arctic temperatures.
City Water and Light serve Jonesboro citizensâ utilities. They only had a few power outages during last weekâs wintry weatherâtheir key to power â preparedness.
CWL has spent years adding backup generators at water treatment plants to help keep the water pumping if the city does lose power.
A new substation to the Valley View area also helped.
Multiple Nacogdoches County fire departments extinguish house fire on CR 839 Multiple Nacogdoches County fire departments battled a house fire on County Road 839 on Monday. (Source: Lilbert-Looneyville VFD Facebook page) By Gary Bass | February 23, 2021 at 11:12 AM CST - Updated February 23 at 6:12 PM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Firefighters from multiple Nacogdoches County fire departments battled a fire at a home in the Nat community that was likely caused by a generator Monday night.
According to a post on the Lilbert-Looneyville Volunteer Fire Department’s Facebook page, the fire occurred at a two-story house in the 700 block of County Road 839.
Firefighters from the Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Central Heights-Appleby, Cushing, Douglass, Loco Valley, and Porter fire departments responded to the fire at about 7:42 p.m. Monday.
Here are updated community-level estimated times of restoration for 95 percent of customers in each area:
Mansfield, Noble, North Leesville, Negreet â 6 p.m. Sunday
Belmont, Campti, Creston, Grand Ecore, Many, Marthaville, Powhatan, Provencal, Verda â 10 p.m. Sunday
SWEPCO is asking any customers who remain without power after 10 p.m. today (Sunday) to report their outage again.
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âAs we finish work on all the main circuits, we know there may still be individual customers without power,â said Drew Seidel, SWEPCO vice president, Region Distribution Operations. âReporting any remaining outages will help assure that we donât miss anyone in this final stage of service restoration.â
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How SWEPCO Restores Power
SWEPCO prioritizes restoration efforts to safely get the largest number of customers on in the shortest amount of time and addresses restoration in these four steps:
First, assess damage and restore critical services, such as hospitals and fire departments
Second, restore outages that affect large groups of customers
Third, fix problems that affect smaller numbers of customers and
Fourth, make repairs that affect individual customers.
How to Report, Track Outages
· Log on to SWEPCO.com to report an outage and to sign up for text and email updates, including an estimated time of restoration.
·       Use the SWEPCO app, available for download via the App Store or Google Play.