And in Picher, Okla., someone felled the town's utility poles with chain saws, allowing thieves to abscond with 3,000 feet of wire while causing a blackout.
The company also offers power line construction and inspection, meter reading, GPS mapping, utility pole maintenance, roadway lighting and traffic signal construction and maintenance.
People are upset about the deployment of thousands of pieces of equipment the size of small appliances being placed strategically and liberally on publicly owned "vertical infrastructure" (that's bureaucratese for municipal utility poles, street lights and even traffic lights).
Today it produces irrigation equipment as well as utility poles, structures for lighting on highways and in sports stadiums, and cellphone transmission towers.
The auto had been doused with gasoline and had struck a utility pole in what police said was a staged accident.
THE cross affixed to a utility pole at Centre Avenue and Grand Avenue in Bellmore is surrounded by withered flowers and adorned with a small hockey stick.
* COMMON RAVEN perched on a utility pole, before heading north.
Images of Madison Square in the 1880's show Fifth Avenue and Broadway filled with utility poles laden with endless lengths of electrical and telephone wiring.
It hit a utility pole, and chaos descended, with many of the 20 or so passengers screaming and jumping from their seats.
After exiting from underneath the truck, the car traveled 297 feet, then collided with a utility pole.
The SUV ran up a utility pole wire and got stuck with its front end in the air.
