Electrical lines from a toppled utility pole have killed four horses in central Puerto Rico in an incident that also saw ...

Linemen work on poles Aug. 13, in Lahaina, following deadly fires that caused heavy damage days earlier. When the winds of Hurricane Dora lashed Maui Aug. 8, they struck bare electrical lines the ...

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, ... As for the poles, in a 2019 Hawaiian Electric regulatory document, the company said its 60,000 poles, ...

Hawaiian Electric also faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple. Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric on ...

Sixty percent of the utility poles on West Maui were still down on Aug. 14, according to Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura at a media conference — 450 of the 750 poles.

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Many power poles on Maui were built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the end of their projected life.