Workers from Mississippi Power and EMEPA provided support on the East Coast over the weekend and Monday to restore power to Hurricane Matthew victims. 

EMEPA sent 24 linemen, servicemen, mechanics and engineers to Moncks Corner, S.C. to aid the Berkeley Electric Cooperative.

BEC, the largest cooperative in South Carolina, had nearly 68,000 outages following the hurricane. As of Monday morning, the outage count was down to 29,950.

EMEPA crews left the Meridian office Monday to assist in power restoration efforts, according to a press release. 

On Saturday, 102 Mississippi Power workers left for Savannah, Ga., to begin their work.

According to a news release Sunday from Mississippi Power, 118,021 people in Savannah did not have power on Sunday, nearly half of the 208,131 Georgia Power customers without power. 

Workers split into teams to address various jobs throughout Savannah, repairing broken poles and moving trees off of downed power lines. 

These repairs will restore power to a major wastewater treatment facility, allowing families to return to their homes. In the statement, Mississippi Power said that crews would continue working on Monday. 

“We’ve got to get power back to that lift station so people can return home,” said a team leader, Joe Cole, in Sunday’s statement. “We made a lot of progress today but we still have a lot of poles down. We still have a lot to do.”