The company-sponsored Corridor Habitat Initiative in Bloomington, Minn., recently received the Foundation's 2001 Project Award. Xcel Energy will respond to emergency requests for trimming limbs or trees that are interfering with service or may pose a safety hazard. Xcel Energy recommends that customers not attempt to trim trees near power lines and reminds customers that contact with overhead lines or downed lines poses safety hazards that can result in serious injury or even death. Adults should remind children to stay away from fallen power lines and any object a downed line may come in contact with, especially trees whose limbs might come into contact with lines. A tree limb touching a power line will become energized, and touching the energized limb would be just as dangerous as touching a live line.
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