Rhode Island Energy has more than 400 crews and 14-hundred personnel working across the state to restore power.
Kathy Castro, Vice President of Electric Operations at RIE says crews will be working around the clock to restore service as quickly and as safely as possible.
Castro says restoration happens in stages and crews begin by assessing damage, making downed wires safe, then repairing transmission lines, followed by substations, and neighborhood circuits before restoring individual homes.
RIE says this will be a multi-day restoration for some customers, with outages that could last beyond 72-hours in severely impacted areas.
RIE has brought in additional crews and external resources from as far as New Jersey and Pennsylvania to assist.
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