James Nelson
4:06 - 4:39
"We can have more hands here by early next week, but there's not going to be a lot of power going on to the north side of town until all this calms down and the wind calms down."
“We can have more hands here by early next week, but there's not going to be a lot of power going on to the north side of town until all this calms down and the wind calms down.”
- Speaker
- James Nelson
- Timestamp
- 4:06 – 4:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Tok
- Captured at
- August 21, 2026
From the transcript
So we're going to have to take an inventory of the houses that were lost and places that we don't have to go to and places that are in the fire-affected area that we need to get temporary power to. We realize it's also coming up on winter. We're going to try to get this stuff done as fast as possible, and we can have more hands here by early next week, but there's not going to be a lot of power going on to the north side of town until all this calms down and the wind calms down. So that's kind of the update that I got. We're going to try to keep it up as much as possible.
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