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Three fire departments showed up after a report of a fire at the Holden Irving gas station on Route 1A Wednesday night.
About 8 p.m., two clerks saw the lights in the store flicker and go out, and smelled smoke coming from the electrical room. They went out back and found the electric meter on fire, according to Holden Fire Department Assistant Chief Andrew Emery.
Emery said the Brewer Fire Department arrived first and put out the flames with a dry chemical extinguisher. Brewer has a mutual-aid arrangement with Holden, as does Eddington, which also sent an engine. Emery said Dedham and Orrington were also on standby.
Emery said Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. arrived quickly and turned off the power at the pole.
Holden firefighters checked the building with thermal-imaging cameras. Emery said the department is helping the Irving staff move perishables to other local stores.
A 17-year-old Bradford youth reportedly hit his father with a metal crutch Tuesday night, leading to assault charges for both.
Maine State Trooper Seth Edwards said he received the call at 7 p.m.
Edwards said the father and son, along with other members of the family, gave the same story. Evidently an argument between the two led to the father striking his son. They then began hitting each other and rolling on the floor of their Middle Road home.
Edwards said the father has a broken foot from a previous altercation with the boy, and has to use an aluminum crutch. Edwards said the boy broke the crutch on his father’s head, sending him to Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft for stitches.
The boy was arrested for aggravated assault and released into his stepmother’s custody. The father was arrested for simple assault and taken to Penobscot County Jail.
Bangor police arrested a man Tuesday night after an alleged scuffle with his girlfriend.
About 7 p.m. Officers Daniel Herrick and Erik Tall responded to a call from a woman at a Mount Desert Road address who said her boyfriend had broken windows and grabbed her. Dispatch told the officers a Massachusetts protection order was in effect to protect the woman from Matthew Van Dine, 24, of Bangor.
The officers arrived to find Van Dine on the front porch, Herrick said. A woman came to the door crying. Herrick said the woman was nine months pregnant.
She told Herrick Van Dine had come home drunk and an argument ensued about his drinking, police said. She said Van Dine tried to strangle her. When she pushed him away, she said, he went outside and threw a rock through the garage window.
Herrick said the skin on the woman’s neck was reddish.
Van Dine said his girlfriend kicked him in the groin and hit him in the eye.
The woman told Herrick she may have done it while pushing him away.
Herrick said Van Dine’s cheek was red. Van Dine admitted breaking the window and said he would pay the landlord for it.
Herrick arrested Van Dine on a charge of criminal mischief and for violation of a protection order.
– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball
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