FAIRFIELD — A power line equipment failure was responsible for leaving almost 2,000 Central Maine Power customers without electricity for about an hour and a half Sunday night.
A decayed wooden cross arm on top of a pole on Old Center Road in Fairfield broke on Sunday afternoon, taking down a power line, according to CMP spokeswoman Gail Rice. Cross arms suspend electricity lines. Officials Sunday night didn’t immediately know what had caused the line to come down.
The power outtage affected about 1,925 customers in Fairfield, Waterville and Oakland. It was reported a few minutes before 5 p.m. Sunday and power was returned at approximately 6:35 p.m., Rice said.
Central Maine Power has a five-year inspection and maintenance schedule and usually catches bad equipment before it becomes a problem, but with hundreds of thousands of poles in its system, sometimes things go wrong, Rice said.
“Our equipment is exposed to the elements 24/7, and sometimes things break,” she said.
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