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DoI Attend Over 40 Call Outs

Before this, three trees came down on the island’s roads on Saturday which were cleared by on-call teams.
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The DoI attended 43 incidents where roads were blocked or partially blocked by trees or large branches on Sunday night.

Before this, three trees came down on the island’s roads on Saturday which were cleared by on-call teams.

Given the forecast for Sunday, and in preparation for the anticipated increase calls for service, Highway Services opened up its control room on Saturday afternoon to support the out of hours duty officer while the number of on-call Highway Services incident response teams was increased from two to six.

A member of staff was also based at the Emergency Joint Control Room for the evening in order to co-ordinate the response to emerging incidents with the emergency services and other authorities.

The DoI said: ‘On Sunday evening/night our teams attended 43 incidents where roads were blocked or partially blocked by trees or large branches. There were trees down all across the Island, but the North and West were particularly impacted.
‘Two roads remain closed this morning (Monday 22 January); Narradale near Sulby and Clay Head Road, Baldrine whilst further assessments are being undertaken to determine how fallen trees at those locations can be safely removed.

‘This morning our teams have cleared trees from several locations and are currently clearing fallen trees from various locations in Maughold, and Ballaleigh Road in Michael.’