An apartment complex at 503 Benton Ave. in Winslow is damaged and without electricity Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer clipped nearby power lines. Dylan Tusinski/Morning Sentinel

WINSLOW — An apartment complex was damaged and left without electricity Thursday morning when a tractor-trailer clipped power lines on Benton Avenue in Winslow.

Power to six apartment buildings at 503 Benton Ave. was knocked out at about 10:30 a.m. when the tractor-trailer, which was pulling into the complex’s parking lot, caught power lines and pulled down two utility poles and a transformer, Terry Manning, who works for Spectrum, said at the scene.

Electrical and other utility wires pulled down by a tractor-trailer sit atop a vehicle Thursday morning that belongs to a resident of an apartment at 503 Benton Ave. in Winslow. The man, who identified himself only as Craig, says the wires dented and scraped the roof and sides of the vehicle. Dylan Tusinski/Morning Sentinel

“(The driver) came through, caught them lines and didn’t know it. He snapped off the first pole, which dropped a transformer that almost blew,” Manning said. “He ended up snapping another pole and ripping up the side of one of the buildings.”

The power lines ripped through the outside wall of one of the apartment buildings, sending plywood and sheet metal to the ground, Deputy Chief Mike Murphy of the Winslow Fire Department said.

“It pulled the siding and wooden sheeting off the side of the house,” Murphy said. “You could actually see the inside drywall from the outside.”

No one was injured in the incident, Murphy said, and it was unclear what the truck was carrying and where it was headed.

Vehicles in the parking lot were dented and scraped when power lines fell onto them.

A utility pole knocked over by the truck came within feet of smashing into the car belonging to a resident of the apartment building, who identified himself only as Craig.

“I was sitting in my apartment and I heard a loud bang this morning,” he said. “I looked outside and saw the pole had fallen about a foot away from my car. Seriously, like no more than 2 feet.”

About 30 people in Winslow were without power as of 1 p.m. Thursday, according to Central Maine Power Co.

Several residents said they were told by CMP and Spectrum that power would be restored by 3 p.m. Thursday.

About a 1-mile stretch of Benton Avenue, between Roderick and Haywood roads, was closed to traffic much of Thursday morning.