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Central Maine Power Co. plans to donate personal protective equipment that its parent company, Avangrid, had in storage to emergency personnel in Maine Monday morning, a spokesperson for the company said.

The company will donate 3,000 surgical masks and 3,000 N95 respirator masks, two of the most in-demand items for front-line workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The equipment will be donated to the Maine Emergency Management Agency in Augusta Monday.

Lori Valigra, investigative reporter for the environment, holds an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. She was a Knight journalism fellow at M.I.T. and has extensive international reporting experience...

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