Vice President Dana speaks with WABI following campus power outage
WABI (Channel 5) spoke with University of Maine students and Robert Dana, UMaine’s vice president for student life and dean of students, following a power outage on campus that was caused by a lightning strike. Half of the campus lost power, which led to classes being canceled for much of the day. Power was restored by the afternoon, and classes and normal operations resumed at 4:30 p.m. “We’re very happy that this sort of emergent situation happened when it was 50-plus degrees. We did have half the campus open, so there was access to dining services,” Dana said. “Everyone was safe, sound and secure.”