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Standing at the corner of 28th and Oakford streets in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia, PECO lineman Keith Coombs points to an electric pole that looks rotten and unstable.
“So anyone walking in this … public street in Philadelphia would run the risk of that falling down and killing them,” Coombs said. “That’s 13,000 volts, 7,000 volts when they come in contact, and that creates a giant ball fire, like really bad stuff. I have a 10- and a 12-year-old that I would not let walk under there. They’re the most important thing to me and the most precious thing to me in this world, and I cannot let that happen.”…