AUGUSTA — A power outage left several thousand central Maine residents without electricity Sunday afternoon.
A total of 5,472 Central Maine Power Co. customers were without power for about an hour at the peak of the outage, from 3:05 to 4:12 p.m., according to John Carroll, a CMP spokesman.
Some 3,500 customers were without power for a longer period, starting about 1:30 p.m. They didn’t have power back as of 5 p.m. Sunday and Carroll said then it would likely be a few more hours before power was restored to those customers.
The towns affected by the longer outage included: Belgrade, Chesterville, Fayette, Manchester, Mount Vernon, Readfield, Rome, and Vienna.
The larger outage affected those towns as well as customers in Augusta and Hallowell.
The initial outage was caused by a limb coming down on a power line in Readfield about 1:30 p.m., Carroll said.
While workers were reenergizing a substation in response to that outage, a piece of equipment in a substation failed which, in turn, caused another substation to go down, too, at 3:05 p.m.
The second substation returned to service, as did electricity in Augusta and Hallowell, at 4:12 p.m.
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