WILTON — Workers from Bee Line Cable Co. returned to town Thursday morning to secure the fiber optic lines they restored after an RV fire burned through them Tuesday night.
About 300 Internet, 600 television and nearly 200 telephone customers lost services when an RV caught fire then rolled head-on into a pole on Main Street at about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.
A crew from Bee Line started at about 8:30 p.m. and worked through the night replacing two fiber optic lines, George Allen, Bee Line general manager, said Thursday. Most services were restored by early Wednesday morning.
The charred pole shows flames reached nearly to the street light above. The fire didn’t affect power or telephone service other than subscribers to Bee Line.
Bee Line workers, Brock Hagopian and Justin Melcher, returned Thursday morning to secure the looped dangling wires.
Hagopian said he could not believe the pole did not fall. A pole accident usually splinters and breaks the pole, he said.
Customers west of the pole and on Depot Street and some east of the pole lost services for a period of 9 to 12 hours, Allen said.
When a new pole is put in, the cable company will return to swap their cables over.
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