About 25,000 Emera Maine customers in central and southern Aroostook County lost electricity Monday afternoon, after a tree fell on a transmission line in Easton that feeds power to the region.
Power went out a little after 4 p.m. Monday for all customers from Island Falls north to Caribou and returned for everyone by 5:45 p.m., according to Emera spokesman Bob Potts.
“A tree fell from outside of the right of way, taking down the transmission line that feeds the region from New Brunswick,” Potts wrote in an email.
Some 25,000 customers were initially taken offline, and the company used a “rolling restoration” process to return electricity via different circuits, he indicated.
“Between system operators manually re-routing circuits and our line crews scrambling to repair the damage, it wasn’t out nearly as long as it could have been,” Potts wrote.