Crews head south to help with Hurricane Milton

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– The Lansing Board of Water and Light (BWL), traveled to Florida yesterday morning to help communities restore power.

BWL sent eight employees along with two line crews and one tree crew on their journey around 6 a.m.

Amy Adamy, spokesperson for BWL says the goal is to help with restorations and widespread outrages from Hurricane Milton.

Crews are headed for Orlando to start power restoration and Adamy says they will move around depending on where they are needed the most.

“This is the second time I’ve gone on a hurricane, I was down in Urma in 2017, now two hurricanes in the last couple weeks,” said lead lineman Jack Houghtalint.

As of right now, Hurricane Milton has made landfall this morning, and we won’t know the extent of the damage until the sun rises.

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