Utilities worker killed doing storm repair work

NEWNAN - A lineman who had worked for Newnan Utilities since 1989 was electrocuted while doing routine storm repair work. <br> <br> James Richard Sewell, 35, of Newnan, had no heartbeat when emergency crews arrived about 3:15 p.m. Monday, according to Melvin Hunter of VitalCare EMS. Sewell was up in a bucket truck at the time, he said. <br> <br> Crews continued to perform CPR and defibrillation on Sewell and ran a full course of drugs, ``but ... we never could get him back,&#39;&#39; Hunter said. <br> <br> Newnan Utilities General Manager Dennis McEntire said Sewell and other crew members were doing ``routine storm restoration&#39;&#39; related to Sunday&#39;s storms when he somehow came into contact with electricity. <br> <br> ``He was a lineman, a good one and very well trained,&#39;&#39; McEntire said.

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