About 40 customers of Central Maine Power Co. remained in the dark Friday night after weather, accidents and equipment failures contributed to more than 2,000 outages at the peak.
The remaining outages were in Oxford County, which had 34, and York County, which had five as of 8:24 p.m.
At one point early Friday, more than 2,000 customers lost power, many of them in Cape Elizabeth and South Portland. That was due to a tree falling on power lines, company dispatchers said, and was repaired within about 90 minutes.
A bad insulator caused an outage in Biddeford and Arundel, dispatchers said, and that power was restored to customers there by about 4 p.m.
In Greene, a tractor-trailer rollover knocked down a utility pole, leaving hundreds without power there. And several hundreds more lost power in the York County town of Shapleigh, due to downed lines.
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