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30691
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Every two years, hundreds of North Carolina’s electric cooperative line workers compete in the Pole Top Rescue Championship held in Raleigh. The championship demonstrates the skill and agility of linemen in recognizing a victim in trouble on a power pole, reporting the incident, scaling the pole, safely lowering the victim and beginning a first aid process. This year a new state record was set for performing the rescue in less than three minutes.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 46 Issue 12, Dec 2014, p12-13, por
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31064
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Nash Community College, located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, offers the only comprehensive lineman training program in the state. The electric lineman technology program consists of classroom instruction, hands-on line construction training, electrical theory, basic math and communication skills, power generation, transmission and distribution concepts, and climbing electric poles. Upon completion of the program, the student is qualified for employment as an entry-level line technician.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 38 Issue 8, Aug 2006, p10, por
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31251
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Joining the elite corps of linemen requires training, hard work and real teamwork. For linemen in North Carolina, most of their course instruction takes place at Nash Community College in a program established by the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives. David Burr, a crew foreman in Wadesboro, discusses what is involved in linemen education and training.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 32 Issue 9, Sept 2000, p20-21, por
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31289
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The poles and lines of North Carolina’s electric cooperatives run through some of the most challenging terrain in the state. The legal right that utilities have to go on land for system maintenance purposes is called a right-of-way or ROW. This article discusses three types of ROW management, which include mechanical, manual and herbicidal methods.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 31 Issue 7, July 1999, p14-16, il, por
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31560
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Three winter storms hit North Carolina in January, leaving a swath of destruction and thousands of citizens without electricity. This article features interviews with work crews repairing storm damage in the service area of Randolph Electric Membership Corporation in Asheboro during the second of January’s severe ice storms. Randolph County experienced the costliest damages, and is requesting disaster relief funds.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 10 Issue 3, Mar 1978, p8-11, il, por
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13795
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The most painstaking precautions protect linemen from electrocution.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 19 Issue 49, May 1952, p13, 19, f
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