{"id":8828,"date":"2022-01-10T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0296e64c700026ae"},"modified":"2022-01-10T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T04:00:29","slug":"man-climbs-electrical-tower-power-goes-out-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/man-climbs-electrical-tower-power-goes-out-for-many\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN CLIMBS ELECTRICAL TOWER, POWER GOES OUT FOR MANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 9, 2022 a man climbed a tall electrical tower on Nations Crossing Road Charlotte, NC. The man&#8217;s distant climb caused power outages in the area. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_8636.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly before 2:00 p.m. officers responded to a 911 call on Nations Crossing Road regarding a man climbing a large high tension electrical tower. As officers arrived on the scene, they attempted to talk with a man who was approximately 70 feet up the tower. <\/p>\n<p>While officers were communicating, he climbed another 15-20 feet to the top of tower. <\/p>\n<p>Police contacted Duke Energy and crews were quickly dispatched to de-energize high voltage power away from the tower. This caused some limited power outages for businesses and residents in the area. Duke Energy was able to re-route power through other stations to return service. <\/p>\n<p> Crisis Intervention Team officers and negotiators from the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) were called in to the scene also. <\/p>\n<p>SWAT negotiators were able to communicate with the man using a long range acoustic device. After approximately four hours of communication, the man climbed down from the tower. <\/p>\n<p>The man had a mental and physical condition. He was transported to the hospital so he could receive proper treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your power went out on Sunday in certain areas, it was because of a man climbing a power tower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,365,828,576,41,49,40],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-climb","tag-communications","tag-community","tag-electrical","tag-electricity","tag-power-outages","tag-power-poles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}