File: Power Restore video2.wmv   Created: 10-30-09

Opening text:
The first stage of power restoration is complete in American Samoa, which lost one of its two power plants and half its electricity in the tsunami disaster on Sept. 29, 2009.

Overlay:
Donald Schlack, Power Action Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Overlay: October 29, 2009, American Samoa

Voice: 
The electricity situation here in American Samoa has improved greatly in the past week since we added more generators and transformers.

Voice:
It took almost all day in Fagatogo. First, we had to disconnect the generator from an existing small transformer, mover the generator, bring in another 15-ton generator and connect both of them to a large transformer.

Voice: At Pago East, we assembled high voltage wires, raised them and connected them to the top of a power pole and then installed a larger transformer to feed them from below.

Now, a week later, there are no more rolling blackouts in Pago Pago.

Rolling text:
Power restoration is a combined effort of the following:

American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA)

FEMA

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Bravo Company
249th Engineer Battalion
(Prime Power)
Ft. Bragg, North Carolina

General Services Administration

Mutual aid utility crews from 
Kauai Island, Hawaii
and Eugene, Oregon

Text:
Replacement of the damaged power plant in a safer location is expected to take two years.

Text:
For more information go to
www.fema.gov or
www.americansamoa.gov