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July 28, 2017

10,000 tourists evacuate after PCL project mishap

  • PCL told a North Carolina utility it drove a steel casing into an transmission cable while working on a bridge, cutting off power to coastal islands.
  • BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — An estimated 10,000 tourists were ordered Thursday to evacuate an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks after a construction company caused a power outage, leaving people stranded without air conditioning or places to eat.

    The Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative said in a news release that PCL Construction told the utility it had driven a steel casing into an electric transmission cable while working on the new Bonner Bridge on the state's coast, inadvertently cutting off power to Ocracoke and Hatteras islands.


     
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