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There are roughly 800 miles between Pennsylvania and Alabama, but distance was no barrier to 13 people who traveled from the Pittsburgh Engineer District to the Gulf region to begin work restoring power after Hurricane Ida hit. Less than 12 hours after the Category 4 hurricane battered the Gulf coast on August 29, the district deployed its team in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's declaration for Louisiana and surrounding states. The group joined Task Force Temporary Emergency Power and, along with six other district teams, helped to restore electricity. "It's selfless service," said Al Coglio, the chief of emergency management for the Pittsburgh district. "It takes someone who knows that people somewhere else in the country are without power, and their actions-when they get on the ground-are to help them." |