FAIRFIELD, Maine — Police on Wednesday publicly identified the man who was fatally injured while removing a downed tree in Fairfield during a windstorm Monday afternoon.
William S. Tanner, 77, of Fairfield was removing a downed tree with a tractor when the tree fatally struck him, Fairfield police told NEWS CENTER Maine Wednesday.
First responders were called to the scene on Norridgewock Road at approximately 3:34 p.m. Monday.
Tanner is the second person known to have died in Maine during Monday's storm. Around noon, emergency officials responded to a report that a man in Windham had been fatally struck by part of a falling tree while he was working to remove debris from his roof.
Troy Olson, 40, died "immediately," according to a news release from the Windham Police Department.
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Two other people remain unaccounted for Wednesday in Oxford County, after the vehicle they were in was swept away by high floodwaters Monday night along the Swift River on Route 2 in Mexico. Two others were able to escape from the vehicle and escape to safety. They were treated for hypothermia at a hospital in Rumford.