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Boone Electric sends 10 lineworkers to Alabama

By Ryan Shiner

Published October 12, 2026 6:58 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Boone Electric sent 10 lineworkers to Alabama on Saturday to help restore power in places affected by Hurricane Isaias.

A Boone Electric spokesman told ABC 17 News in an email that Missouri electric cooperatives sent 184 lineworkers to Alabama.

The spokesman wrote in the email that the Boone Electric crews is part of the largest Missouri group helping Southern Pine Electric Cooperative in Brewton, Alabama.

The spokesman said nearly three-quarters of the electricity customers in that area were without power on Monday morning. Online information showed about a third of customers were still without power on Monday evening.

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