Storm damage closes some area roads
The wind, snow and rainstorm brought down limbs, trees and lines, getting public safety and power crews out overnight and forcing a few road closures.
Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry stated in a text response Friday morning, Hemlock Road off Young’s Point Road has been shut down due to a tree on wires. The call came in at 3:20 a.m. and was the only one, Merry said.
Golden Ridge Road in Alna remained shut down until Central Maine Power could address wires on a tree, Alna Fire Chief Mike Trask said. The department got the call at about 5 a.m. and cleared the same road of about five or six other trees, Trask said.
The intersection of Post Office and West Shore roads on Westport Island remained closed shortly before 8 a.m. due to lines on a tree, Fire Chief Bob Mooney said. Earlier, the island lost power when a tree went down on Main Road, just north of the fire station, Mooney said. CMP responded to that outage and the road is back open, he said.
Mooney added that, now that the station has a generator from a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, when anyone on the island has a power outage, they can contact him at 460-0367 to use the station as a warming shelter.
All Edgecomb Fire Department had due to the storm was a phone line down on McKay Road around 3 a.m., Fire Chief Roy Potter said. A plow truck moved the line off the road so a closure was not needed, Potter said.
As of 8:14 a.m., CMP’s website at cmpco.com was reporting 97, 635 outages, including 6,756 in Lincoln County and 6,206 in Sagadahoc County. Wiscasset had 131 customers out; Edgecomb, 878; Boothbay Harbor, 1,000; Boothbay, 160; Damariscotta, 1,135; Dresden, 722; Alna, 227; Woolwich, 138; Westport Island, 134; Southport, 115; and Newcastle, 55.
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