The crews that build the system are the crews that restore it
Cannon has answered emergency and storm callouts under utility agreements since 2019. The crews on a callout are the crews that perform the scheduled work on the same systems, so a restoration starts with a switching order rather than an orientation.
Standing agreements, not one-time callouts
Puget Sound Energy
Storm and emergency response under master service agreement since 2019, covering distribution system repairs across multiple storm events, inside a program that also carries make ready, maintenance, pole services, pole pull, common crew transfer, safety watch and dedicated communications crews.
Seattle City Light
Storm and emergency response releases run alongside the joint use and pole replacement programs Cannon has held since 2016, so the crews answering a callout are already qualified on the system and already badged.
City of Milton
On-call crews for distribution maintenance and storm response for the City's municipal electric utility, under a prime contract held directly with the City.
What Cannon brings to a restoration event
- Crews already qualified on the owner's construction standards, switching procedures and safety requirements.
- Energized line work and switching capability, so damaged sections are isolated and restored without a broader outage.
- Journeyman linemen, insulated boom trucks, digger derricks and cover-up equipment rolling from a Cannon yard.
- An owned fleet of 600+ pieces of equipment, including excavation and vacuum excavation.
- A general foreman who runs the restoration from the first call to the last customer restored.
- Access to the IBEW hall through the Northwest Line Constructors Chapter NECA outside line agreement when an event outruns the standing division.
- Telecommunications crews and splicers for the joint use poles and fiber damage that come down with the power line.
- Equipment and supervision already in the territory.
A storm does not respect the line between power and telecom
When a pole comes down it takes the power conductor and the fiber with it. Cannon works both, so the pole is reset, the line re-energized and the joint use attachments transferred and spliced in one restoration plan, with the owner's switching order setting the sequence.
Safety on a callout is the same program as on a scheduled day: a job briefing before each task and again whenever conditions change, cover up and grounding to the owner's standard, clearances taken and released through the owner's system, and stop work authority for every employee. See the safety page.
How to set up a response agreement
Most utilities add Cannon to a storm roster through an existing master service agreement or a stand-alone emergency response agreement that sets rates, mobilization terms and reporting. Contact the power group at 253.922.2787 or through the contact page and ask for emergency response.
Add Cannon to your storm roster
Crews, equipment and supervision in the territory, qualified on your system before the weather arrives.