Jacksonville, FL — It's a mission that's expected to take days or maybe even weeks.
JEA is joining efforts to help with power restoration in Florida's panhandle, in the wake of Hurricane Michael.
We've learned the utility will be sending 40 four-man linemen crews, about 160 workers total, to the Pandhandle early Thursday morning, where they plan to stay for the next two weeks.
We’re told crews are also bringing along support staff, as well as a 7,000-gallon fuel tanker to help with these restoration efforts.
A JEA foreman who has been deployed for several previous hurricanes says the best things residents can do when impacted by outages is to let power crews remove debris near the lines and be patient.
He tells our partner Action New Jax, there's a good possibility of total devastation, which would mean having to rebuild most of the electric infrastructure in the panhandle.
