Florida will be receiving assistance in rebuilding their electric grid from Arizona Public Service, who are sending crews from across the state, including Prescott.
Thirty APS employees, including lineworkers and support crew members from Phoenix, Yuma, Douglas, Casa Grande, Payson, Snowflake, Flagstaff, Wickenburg, Cottonwood, and Prescott, loaded up their bucket trucks and hit the road Thursday morning.
Central and southern Arizona crews met in Benson for departure, while northern Arizona crews gathered in Flagstaff before meeting up in Holbrook with employees from Payson and Snowflake to caravan across the country. They are scheduled to arrive in Florida on Saturday, joining teams from other utilities to support the effort, which could take a month.
The APS lineworkers, who typically work in all parts of the state, volunteered to leave their homes and day-to-day duties in Arizona as part of a mutual assistance network with energy providers nationwide.