And the way they inspect wood poles is they go through and they chip off, you know, some of the debris and things and to see how sturdy they were. And this particular The power pole [involved in the Smokehouse Creek fire] was found to be not integral back in January of this year. and it was scheduled to be replaced. And so it was stood up for a couple of months and while it was waiting to be replaced and the wind apparently, … (09:05–09:11)
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