Firefighters battled a blaze on an NSTAR truck that spread to a parked car on Clarendon Avenue in West Somerville Tuesday afternoon. No one was hurt due to the heroic efforts of a second truck driver who helped rescue two NSTAR workers.
PS&G workers maintain power grid from aloft April 24, 2012
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Lineman Carl Pellegrino works on a power line from a platform affixed to a helicopter piloted by Vinnie Carchia. “There haven’t been any close calls,” Pellegrino said of their work.
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California Utility Opens First Sustainable Campus as Model Utility Site : TreeHugger February 1, 2012
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California Utility Opens First Sustainable Campus as Model Utility Site : TreeHugger.
Canadian Electricity Lineman Yvon Blin Saves Seagull from Power Cables | Leo Sigh| Updated January 23, 2012
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Canadian Electricity Lineman Yvon Blin Saves Seagull from Power Cables | Leo Sigh.
Nova Scotia Lineman rescues Seagull Trapped in Powerlines January 17, 2012
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Largest ash tree in Kansas sees its last day… October 17, 2011
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At 8 a.m. Monday, city workers and Brown’s Tree Service began cutting down an ash tree in Oakland that was reportedly the largest in Kansas.
Dennis Supple, who lives across the street from the tree’s location in the 400 block of N.E. Kellam, said he once measured the tree at 18 feet in circumference. He didn’t know how old the tree was, but as with anything like that, he said, “it’s kind of sad to see it go.”
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NSTAR Bucket Truck workers were lucky to get down after a utility box caught fire on Clarendon Avenue July 6, 2011
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Read more: NSTAR driver rescues coworkers from flaming cherry picker in Somerville – Somerville, Massachusetts 02144 – Somerville Journal http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/archive/x1860260997/NSTAR-driver-rescues-coworkers-from-flaming-cherry-picker-in-Somerville#ixzz1RLZ30IVW
Bucket Truck at Sunset March 2, 2011
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Happy New Year 2011! December 31, 2010
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Holiday Bucket Truck November 17, 2010
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Mayor Duke Bennett hands a holiday wreath to Win Energy employee Chad Jenkins on Tuesday morning as crews install decorations along Wabash Ave in Terre Haute, IN
Bucket Trucks in History – The NASA Connection August 10, 2010
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Bucket Trucks in History-Freedom 7 Launch
By Ron Caswell, July 27, 1998
Last week a chapter in America’s history ended with the passing of Alan B. Shepard. Besides being the first American into space, the 5th man to walk on the moon, he was truly a great and funnyman. NASA Administrator Dan Golden called Alan one of NASA’s greatest pioneers.
Bill Fegar, a friend of mine, was Alan Shepard’s Astronaut Assistant for his first launch May 5th, 1961. If you ever see a picture of this launch, there is a bucket truck parked near the Redstone rocket. In an emergency there would not be enough time to roll the Launch Gantry back to the spacecraft to rescue Alan. Bill Fegar would get out of the armored vehicle (tank) he was in, run over to the bucket truck, and take the bucket up to the capsule for the rescue. Bill said the government would have paid his family $50,000.00 if he got killed in the launch which they thought was big money back them. Bill said they didn’t realize it at the time but they were parked too close to the launch pad. He said that armored vehicle was really shaking during launch!
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