Residents were left in the cold last week when an eight-plus hour power interruption occurred in an area that reportedly stretched from Boonville to beyond Raquette Lake.
The abrupt outage at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 1 extended to 3:10 a.m. the following day.
The Old Forge Fire Department on Fulton Street is able to serve as a public shelter during power outages and other local emergencies.
Photo by Gina Greco
Air temperatures ranging from one to minus 12 degrees during that time period caused in-home thermometers to plumet into the 40 degree range.
Though some passed off the situation as non-critical, others, such as area fire department personnel, regarded it as an emergency and went into action.
