A day of rain and warm temperatures kept local fire and public works departments busy Monday but did not cause major flooding or damage.

Lewiston received 2.49 inches of rain between the beginning of the storm on Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday, with most of it falling during the night and early morning, National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Capriola said from the Gray observation station.

Despite flood warnings issued for southern and central Maine before the storm, “We have been more fortunate in Maine,” Capriola said, adding that some regions of New Hampshire had experienced flooding due to ice jams. “We have not had any problems with flooding reported in Maine. The rivers are below flood level.”

While rivers stayed within their banks, however, rain and runoff were steadily creeping into area basements and roadways on Monday.

The Auburn Fire Department responded to six calls to help pump water out of private homes and businesses between during the storm, Capt. Donald Flanagan said. Most of the calls were related to backed up drains and water leaking into basements, he said.

Flanagan called the storm “relatively uneventful,” but said that calls from distressed home and business owners were only half the battle. “We do see an increase in storm-related medical calls, crashes and fire alarms,” he said.

The department responded to four fire alarms attributed to the storm, he said, including one at the Auburn Housing Authority’s offices at 20 Great Falls Plaza, where water leaking through a roof set off a fire alarm. And after 5:45 p.m., there was a “rash of crashes” when streets that had been wet with rain and melted snow turned to glare ice as temperatures rapidly dropped below freezing, Flanagan said.

The Lewiston Public Works Department responded to a handful of backed up storm drains and water-choked streets — “isolated incidents,” Director Dave Jones said.

“We haven’t had that much of an issue,” Jones said, noting that snow removal efforts in downtown Lewiston had kept most areas draining properly even as the rain continued to fall, and that the snow on the ground had actually acted like a sponge, keeping some of the rain from flooding into the streets.

“The snow we did have was pretty dry, so it’s holding a lot of that water,” he said.

More of an issue for the Public Works department was city’s actual streets, which seemed to crumble underfoot in some places as the snow and ice receded. “The temperature ranges like we’ll see the next couple of days, rain, and cold temperatures at night make for a lot of potholes,” Jones said. “Virtually every street in the city has got some sort of pothole,” including Main Street, he said. Three crews had been scheduled to work filling in potholes throughout the day Tuesday.

In northern Maine, heavy snow and freezing rain caused more trouble on Monday. Broken tree limbs and wet snow pulled down power lines, leaving more than 9,000 Central Maine Power Co. customers without power late Monday afternoon, WGME 13 reported. Eustis, in Franklin County,  received nearly 15 inches of snow, weather service meteorologist Capriola said. In Somerset County, snowfall ranged from 1 inch in some southern areas to 14 inches in the north, he said. “You don’t have to go far to see a big difference in snowfall,” he said.

And although spring is around the corner, the meteorologist warned about what’s down the road.

“It might be a different story with the next storm event,” Capriola said. Now that the snow is saturated with drain water, it is ‘ripe,’” he said, meaning it “will melt more readily” and potentially cause more trouble.

The weather service’s current projections predict the next rainstorm could come as early as Thursday.

A single engine plane flying from Nova Scotia to Quebec, Canada, crashed in a remote area of Maine’s Somerset County on Monday, killing one occupant and injuring another, the Maine Department of Public Safety announced Monday night.

Their identities were not known Monday night, department Spokesman Steve McCausland said in a press release.

The pilot of the small, four-seater Diamond DA-40 sent radio messages in midafternoon saying the plane was experiencing icing and he was searching for an air field to make an emergency landing. The plane’s emergency responder device was triggered shortly thereafter, he said.

Maine State Police, Maine Warden Service and Maine Emergency Management Agency coordinated a search, and the aircraft was discovered just inside the Maine border by a Canadian search helicopter, which landed and took the injured person to a hospital in Quebec, McCausland said.

The search was complicated by the wilderness location and Monday’s winter storm, McCausland said. As much as two feet of snow had fallen in the area, which is accessible only by logging roads, he said. A team of Maine wardens making their way to the site Monday night were forced to travel by snowmobile.