School is out for the summer
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July 2020
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Tips to help keep your kids safe this summer
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ummer is the time when everyone wants to play outside, so it is important that everyone knows the possible electrical safety hazards to avoid in the out-of-doors. Take a look around the outside of your home and go through your neighborhood with your family and show them where power poles and electrical lines are located. Explain the following so that everyone understands the dangers associated with them: •
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Never play near or touch a power line with any part of your body, a toy, a stick, or any other object whatsoever. Assume at all times that any power lines you see are live and dangerous. If you see a downed power line, stay well away and report it to Inland Power immediately. Never approach an electrical substation (or downed power lines) for any reason whatsoever. Period. If a friend, family member or a pet has entered this area, do not try to rescue them yourself—call 911 immediately. Never climb on or play around a utility pole. In fact, never post any signs or flyers on utility poles either as this can endanger you and utility workers that have to work on those poles. Never throw shoes or articles of clothing up onto power lines, and never try to
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Don’t let summer storms be a buzzkill
SAFETY Fourth of July safety
COMMUNITY Summertime safety
retrieve any object already hanging from a power line. There are safer ways to celebrate summer than this. •
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Never climb trees that are too close to power lines; even if the tree isn’t touching a line, the extra weight from someone climbing the tree could cause a branch to touch the line, which would be dangerous. In fact, if you feel that any trees in your yard or neighborhood are too close to power lines, talk with Inland Power about having them trimmed or possibly removed. Never try to retrieve balloons, kites or other objects from power lines or other electrical equipment. Instead, call Inland Power at (509) 789-4277. Always play with kites, model aircraft or any other airborne toys in wide open spaces like parks or fields far away from power lines. This will avoid these objects getting stuck in power lines.
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Always keep an eye on the weather. If a thunderstorm is approaching, go indoors and stay there until the danger has passed.
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Always keep electrical toys at least 10 feet away from pools or wet surfaces.
For more tips to keep your family safe this summer, visit inlandpower.com.
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Tips to protect your home devices
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ummer storms can be a fun sight to see. From lighting dancing across the sky to thunder rattling the walls, storms can make for an awesome spectacle. While they can be fun to watch, storms can also cause outages and damage to power lines, transformers and substations. Inland Power strives to provide safe, reliable and affordable electricity to our members. Even so, Inland Power cannot guarantee 100 percent protection against all power quality problems in your home since power quality events can occur for reasons beyond Inland Power’s control such as lightning strikes, animal damage or faulty equipment. Most of the time members will never notice these voltage disturbances, but large variations
may cause some members’ computers, household appliances, or other personal or business equipment to malfunction.
performance of electronics such as televisions, computers and networking equipment. High quality surge protectors and UPS power backup are highly recommended to avoid equipment damage and data loss.
Members should take prudent steps to protect themselves from possible power quality fluctuations. A short list of the conditions you should consider when determining proper system protections are discussed below. Please remember this list is not inclusive of all possible scenarios. •
SAG & SWELL FLUCTUATIONS — An abrupt decrease (sag), increase (swell) and longer duration fluctuations of power quality can occur at any time. Momentary sags do not generally disturb lighting, motors or heaters, but do impact the
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LOSS OF A PHASE — It is common during an outage for only one or two phases of our power line to be Story continued inside.