PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 4:40 p.m.)—Verizon cell service was restored to PMC at approximately 4 p.m.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 3:55 p.m.)—A Linden Drive resident in PMC reports that power came back on at 3:25 p.m. Verizon cell service is still down with network issues.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 1:55 p.m.)—A Verizon representative has responded saying they are experiencing a network issue and have technicians working on the problem. The generator fuel tank is full, so this is a different problem.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 1:35 p.m.)—Verizon’s cell service is down again. We are contacting the company for more information.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 11:19 a.m.)—Verizon cell phone service has been restored to PMC. The fuel tank at Verizon’s tower was refilled in the last hour. Verizon representative Heidi Flato said the fuel tank will be kept filled with fuel until commercial power has been restored by Southern California Edison.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 10:23 a.m.)—A Southern California Edison representative said she will call The Mountain Enterprise with an update on progress to restore power.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 9:48 a.m.)—The Mountain Enterprise has just spoken with a resident near the top of Woodland Drive who reports that his house is still without power. This indicates the probable reason why Verizon’s tower is still without electricity. The temporary solution of refilling the generator’s fuel tank at the tower should be underway at this time.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 9:37 a.m.)—A Verizon Wireless media representative read our report (below), called The Mountain Enterprise and is looking into the reason why the tower has not come back online. They will call us back to let us know.
PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CA (Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 at 7:54 a.m.)—Verizon Wireless service in Pine Mountain Club went down Sunday around 2 p.m. Electrical service (by Southern California Edison) was lost Friday when power lines in several areas of PMC went down during the storm. Verizon’s tower above Linden Drive remained operational after the power failure because its power generator switched on automatically. On Sunday around 2 p.m., that generator ran out of fuel causing the tower to stop functioning and Verizon’s customers to lose service. A reporter for The Mountain Enterprise spoke Sunday night with Edison crew members who have been working on the electrical problem and they confirmed that the damage to their power lines had cut off power to the Verizon tower. They also mentioned that nobody had plowed the small road leading to Verizon’s tower and that was why nobody had reached the tower to refill the generator’s fuel tank. Edison’s work crews [INCORRECT —finished repair on the electrical lines during the late hours of Sunday night or early hours of Monday morning], but Verizon’s service remains unavailable in PMC. In the meantime, in order to obtain preliminary information, we spoke with Verizon’s technical support department. The preliminary information is that they say work crews are on scene at the tower working to resolve the problem. The Mountain Enterprise reporter was on scene this morning and saw no work crews present at 7:30 a.m. The small roadway beyond the gate leading to the tower appeared to have been plowed recently. The Mountain Enterprise is waiting on a return call from Verizon’s media representative.
This is part of the February 17, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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