SACRAMENTO — A Sacramento couple is grateful they are alive after an AT&T pole in their backyard came crashing down.
“We’ve been having them come out and checking and they kept reassuring me that it is perfectly fine, it will never fall,” said Hae-Yung West, who lives in Rosemont and was woken up by the pole crashing Friday.
Hae-Yung and her husband, Randy West, said they have been concerned that this exact thing would happen since they moved into their home in 1978. They said it had looked like it was leaning and unsteady from the start and had AT&T inspect it multiple times over the years.
“We had a storm this year and one of the results was that we had a cable that was loose,” Randy said.
Randy said that loose cable was not fixed to their liking and on Friday, at around 4:30 a.m., they were woken up to a large crash.
The couple said an AT&T technician came out the same day it fell.
“He said, ‘All I can do is take pictures and report it,’ ” Hae-Yung said.