0:32
Brian Boss
25:56 - 26:29
“I went to a job site and I was talking to some of the people and they were so cold they couldn't talk straight. So, it was really just keeping people and equipment warm was a huge, huge deal. We broke an excavator claw because we were trying to dig through hard ground and, you know, those things are solid steel and it broke.”
- Speaker
- Brian Boss
- Timestamp
- 25:56 – 26:29
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 20, 2026
From the transcript
We set up a warming station for our staff to basically curl up underneath the hose and keep warm. And so, they would take shifts where they would work and they would go warm up when they needed to. I went to a job site and I was talking to some of the people and they were so cold they couldn't talk straight. So, it was really just keeping people and equipment warm was a huge, huge deal. We broke an excavator claw because we were trying to dig through hard ground and, you know, those things are solid steel and it broke.
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