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May 30, 2019

Volunteer crews travel to Navajo reservation to power 300 homes that never had electricity

  • About 60,000 of the reservation's 180,000 residents don't have power.
  • By FELICIA FONSECA
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca [enlarge]
    Ken Wagner, a journeyman lineman with Piqua Power System in Ohio, earlier this month installed an electric meter at a home on the Navajo Nation.

    KAIBETO, Ariz. — Miranda Haskie sits amid the glow of candles at her kitchen table as the sun sinks into a deep blue horizon silhouetting juniper trees and a nearby mesa.


     
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