Mountain Parks Electric awarded $8.9 million for wildfire mitigation

Mountain Parks Electric awarded $8.9 million for wildfire mitigation

Mountain Parks Electric has been awarded $8.9 million in federal funding to bury power lines and reduce wildfire risk in Grand and Jackson counties, the Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed Oct. 2 in an email to Sky-Hi. The second phase of the cooperative’s Powerline Wildfire Mitigation Project includes moving overhead lines underground in high-wildfire-risk areas along County Road 5 and Trail Creek. FEMA said the work also includes lin…