{"id":208002,"date":"2015-08-14T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=208002"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T02:18:11","slug":"200-power-poles-from-guam-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/200-power-poles-from-guam-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"200 power poles from Guam soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>The Guam Power Authority is shipping power poles to Saipan to assist in local power restoration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Right now, CUC is without any spare power poles after all power poles in stock were wiped in recent restoration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acting CUC executive director John Riegel confirmed yesterday that GPA is shipping over poles. According to him, 200 poles are expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinety [poles] will be here by Saturday,\u201d he said. \u201cThe ones coming here this weekend are concrete [power poles].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy also reports that wooden poles from GPA stockpiles in Guam are in the process of receiving airlift transport to Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Soudelor brought down 48 percent of Saipan\u2019s power grid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GPA delivered\u2014via the USS <em>Ashland<\/em>\u2014poles, insulators, wires, splices, and insulators, bolts, among others, in the thousands on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also sent several bucket and Ford trucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guam Power Authority is shipping power poles to Saipan to assist in local power&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[138,5416,50,6333],"class_list":["post-208002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gpa","tag-john-riegel","tag-power","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}