PARIS – Rescuers had to use a four-wheeler to travel down a power line to reach a well-known Norway businessman who was injured while cutting firewood Wednesday afternoon.

Officials said Edgar “Ed” Damon Sr., 71, of Norway, a longtime barber on Main Street, was taken out of the woods off Inman Road on a stretcher and transported to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. A nursing supervisor said Wednesday night that Damon was treated there and transferred to Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was in stable condition, a spokesman at MMC said late Wednesday.

Oxford Fire Department Lt. Steven Cordwell said Oxford Fire and Rescue personnel were called because the accident was reported to be near the power line off Noble Road in Oxford. The road, which is only passable with four-wheel drives or all-terrain vehicles, turns into Inman Road in Paris, which is where Damon was found.

“He was cutting a tree down, and it kind of kicked out and hit him in some way and knocked him aside,” Cordwell said. It did not land on him, he said.

Damon suffered back injuries, he added.

Damon was cutting firewood with a family member, who called Oxford County Regional Communications Center around 1:30 p.m. to report the accident, a dispatcher said.

Damon was strapped to a backboard and placed in the back of the Fire Department’s four-wheel-drive John Deere Gator. And then poking along, with two people walking on either side of the stretcher, rescuers drove him about one-quarter to one-half mile down the power line to Noble Road, where the Oxford Rescue ambulance was waiting, Cordwell said.

The rescue took about 30 minutes, he added.

Staff Editor Mary Delamater contributed to this report.