Randy Taylor Represents
Blue Ridge Electric in Statewide Pole-Top Rescue Competition
For Immediate Release
Contact: Renee Whitener,
Director of Corporate Communications, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, Phone: (828) 758-2383; Pager: 1-800-471-1323; E-mail: Renee Whitener
Raleigh, NC (December 7, 2001) – Randy Taylor represented Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation in the 8th Pole-Top Rescue Competition held recently at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. Sponsored by North Carolina’s electric cooperatives, the statewide safety competition tested rescue skills of linemen from 24 cooperatives from across the state.
Taylor, a line technician in Watauga District, had to scale a pole to 20 feet, lower a 120-pound dummy, call for emergency assistance and begin lifesaving procedures. Taylor’s time was 2:23.43.
“Everybody in the state looks forward to this event because the competition is so intense,” said Tommy Greer, NCAEC’s Job Training and Safety Director and former Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperative lineman. “We all understand that these life-saving skills are the most important a lineman must have and pray will never have to use.”
Blue Ridge Electric serves over 63,000 member-accounts in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes and Alexander counties.
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