LINDEN — Tipmont is sending crews and equipment to assist in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. The storm is expected to make landfall Thursday evening as a category 4 hurricane and create widespread property damage in the southeastern part of the country.
An estimated 40 lineworkers from 12 of Indiana’s electric cooperatives will leave from Clark County REMC Thursday, Sept. 26, to assist Cobb EMC near Marietta, Georgia. Cobb EMC provides electric service to nearly 200,000 residential and commercial consumers in five Georgia counties.
Traveling from Tipmont are: Adam Crabb, foreman; Matt Bassett, lead lineman; Jason Phillips, fourth-year apprentice; and Christian Guimond, first-year apprentice…