A Subaru wagon took out a utility pole on Edgecomb’s River Road late Saturday night, leaving the car’s occupants with only minor injuries and the town’s fire department with several hours’ work ahead, Fire Chief Roy Potter said early Sunday morning.

A half dozen department members responded to Lincoln County Communication’s 11:29 p.m. Sept. 3 page to an accident with unknown injury near 273 River Road, Potter said in an interview in his office at the fire station shortly after 7 a.m. Sept. 4, minutes after the department cleared the scene.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and Wiscasset Ambulance Service also responded, Potter said. Both occupants had gotten out of the car before emergency crews arrived. The ambulance service checked them out but neither needed to be taken to a hospital, he said.

“They were very lucky,” considering the damage to the pole and the car, Potter said. The pole broke into several pieces and the car was totaled, he said.

The crash happened on a curvy section of River Road, Potter said.

The occupants’ names and other information on the accident were not available. Messages to the Sheriff’s Office were not immediately returned.

The pole was an old New England Telephone pole, with power, fiber optic and other utility lines that came down when it broke, Potter said.

“The vehicle was kind of caught up in the lines ... We always treat lines as live until (Central Maine Power) grounds them. CMP showed up, grounded them and the lines were removed.” Throughout the overnight hours, firefighters manned the scene as crews from CMP and Tidewater and Fairpoint communications companies came and went, making repairs and replacing the pole, he said.

River Road traffic heading toward the scene was rerouted to McKay Road, which motorists could take to get onto Route 27; motorists coming from Newcastle on River Road were turned around to head back toward Route One, Potter said. The road reopened at about 6:30 a.m., he said. Among their other tasks, firefighters swept the roadway of debris and picked up trash from the crash scene, Potter said.

He said he was tired after the seven-plus hours’ work. “But it’s what we do ... as firefighters.”

It was an even longer night for his brother John Potter, the department’s assistant chief. The Colby & Gale employee said he was just wrapping up a service call in Pemaquid when the fire department was paged for the accident.

Chief Potter said at least the weather was clear for the long night at the scene. Often when the department goes to River Road, it’s for flooding and they’re working in pouring rain, he said. This time, the stars were out, he said.