RANGELEY — Firefighters were out all night Monday into Tuesday morning dealing with several downed utility poles and trees caused by wind and rain in town and surrounding plantations.

“We ran pretty steady all night,” Rangeley fire Chief Tim Pellerin said at about 11 a.m. Tuesday. “It was very, very windy.”

Two or three utility poles were knocked down. A lot of trees and wires were knocked down. Firefighters secured the scenes where wires were down. Both stations in Rangeley were manned.

The plantations were hit pretty hard, Pellerin said. The first call came in at about 5 p.m. Monday and the last call was at 5 a.m. Tuesday in Sandy River Plantation, Pellerin said.

“We’re still cleaning up,” he said.

At 1:05 p.m. Tuesday, Central Maine Power Co. reported 2,671 customers in Franklin County were without power with the bulk of them in the Rangeley area. At that time 324 customers in Dallas Plantation were without power, 1,287 in Rangeley, 536 in Rangeley Plantation and 375 in Sandy River Plantation, according to CMP’s website.

Tim Hardy, director of the Franklin County Emergency Management Agency, said the Rangeley area was the hardest hit.

The rest of the county fared pretty well, he said.

It was raining harder Tuesday morning than it did all night, Hardy said,

The Sandy River in the Farmington area was coming up, he said at about 11 a.m., and they were keeping an eye on it.

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