Tree crashes in Marshfield, causes electrical outage
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Times Argus Staff - Published: April 27, 2009
MONTPELIER – About 1,200 people were without power for a little over an hour on Sunday after a tree fell on a line.
"A tree went down on a transition line in Marshfield at 12:24," said Dottie Schnure, spokesperson for Green Mountain Power.
Officials of the power company were unsure what caused the tree to fall. The line it landed on fed into the system that handles Washington Electric Cooperative customers, who were the majority of those without power in Plainfield, Calais and Marshfield in the early afternoon outage.
When the line went down, customers in Barre and Berlin were among those affected. Power was restored to that area in less than 10 minutes, according to Schnure, by sectionalizing the power line. In order to get folks in the Twinfield area back on line, power was rerouted there as well.
Schnure did not expect the company would need to power down in order to reconnect lines. An outage also occurred in Moretown on Sunday where at least 80 customers were without power. Schnure did not know the cause of that outage.
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