Maine News Updates

MANCHESTER -- Some 27,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers are without cable and Internet service following a fire this morning at the intersection of Western Avenue and Granite Hill Road.

An overload on a transformer set an electrical pole on fire. That, in turn, caused a grass fire shortly after 11 a.m. today, according to Manchester Town Manager Mark Doyon.

The fire damaged Time Warner fiber optic cable, leaving 27,000 subscribers in Greene, Leeds, Lewiston, Manchester, Readfield and elsewhere without service.

"We're working on the situation to rectify it as soon as possible," said Peter DeWitt, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable's New England Division.

Approximately 300 Central Maine Power Co. customers lost power briefly. It was restored at 12:37 p.m., said John Carroll, a CMP spokesman.