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Hot Job: Linemen Swap Out Power Pole (Photo)

Workers endure 90-plus degree temperatures as they connect wires on a new utility pole on Alta Canyada Road.

The climbing mercury on Wednesday didn't thwart these power line workers from scrabbling up utility poles.

Contracted through Southern California Edison, linemen from Henkels & McCoy are replacing utility poles, battered over time by weather and nature (woodpeckers), around the. Workers used a crane to swing the poles over a strip of houses between Alta Canyada Road and Cypress Drive before swapping them out.  

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