IT Aids Florida Utility Workers
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OCTOBER 04, 2004  - Electric utilities in Florida have been able to leverage IT to help them respond to the widespread power outages caused by the four hurricanes that have hammered the state over the past six weeks.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 19, 2004 - Across Florida, hundreds of relief workers fanned out Sunday to help still-numb families. Motorists waited in lines miles long to buy gas and get free food, ice and water.
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By Doreen Hemlock, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 12--Many South Florida companies are looking to do more than turn profits these days. They also seek to help society and fulfill what they see as social responsibilities.
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By Alison Trinidad, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Dec.
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A Florida county has grand plans to ditch its dump, generate electricity and help build roads &#151; all by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Floridians were again settling into the discomforts of a post-hurricane reality: lines for bags of ice or a hot meal, damaged homes that will take months to repair, and stifling heat and darkness amid widespread power outages...
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Crews from far and near work to restore electricity to places like nursing homes.
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Hundreds of local residents and some from across the nation have turned out to provide a vast array of free aid since Hurricane Charley ravaged the area on Aug. 13.
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The Florida Chamber of Commerce and a vendor are offering all Florida businesses free e-mail protection services in case of a shutdown caused by a hurricane.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Feb. 11--BY MANY MEASURES -- namely, stuff spewed from smoke stacks -- the power plant that Florida Power &amp; Light wants to build in the cane fields of rural Glades County would rank among the state's cleanest.
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MIAMI - Memorial Healthcare System's employees can get an oil change and their clothes dry cleaned without leaving work. General Mills workers can skip traffic and long lines when they mail packages or get jewelry repaired. And Ernst &amp; Young staffers need only pick up a phone to have someone plan their vacation or research nursing homes for an elderly ...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Help Wanted: Lineworkers. Power plant operators. Engineers. And more. Apply now! With an aging workforce walking toward the retirement door, US electric utilities are struggling to find new employees, especially linemen who keep power flowing through the high-voltage cables.
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Normally at this time of the year, labor contractor Jose Luis Avalos would be assembling a crew of workers who could each earn &#36;1,500 to &#36;2,000 a week in the area's abundant citrus groves.
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GULF BREEZE, Fla. - When a hurricane makes landfall in the continental United States, Dave Prevatt and his colleagues in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program are out evaluating which construction methods best protect homes from the tremendous wind forces the storms deliver...
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK  Utility crews were working to restore power to thousands of residents in Westchester County, Long Island and parts of New York City on Sunday in the wake of Ernesto.
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By Curtis Morgan, Ani Martinez and Logan Jaffe, The Miami Herald  Mar. 14--For the first time since 2001, South Florida homeowners and businesses will soon be under orders to use less water.
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More employers are offering this helpful benefit.