Tomahawk EMS had to be assisted to a call on Wednesday morning after their ambulance got stuck in the middle of County Rd O. Paramedics were responding to a call in the Town of Tomahawk when the ambulance became stuck in the roadway due to the large amount of snow. A deputy with a four wheel drive vehicle was sent to ferry the paramedics to the patient but before the deputy arrived a Lincoln County plow truck arrived and was able to plow out the roadway up to the address where the medical emergency was taking place.
Deputies with the assistance of Troopers checked on 19 vehicle slide off's during the storm. Only one crash with property damage was reported during the storm, no injuries were reported with any traffic incident. One dozen disabled motorists were checked on during the storm. Many of those were vehicles stuck in the roadway, including a few semis which had to be towed out of heavy snow.
Wisconsin Public Service reported that up to 15 inches of wet, heavy snow, coupled with windy conditions, had knocked out power to more than 11,000 customers as of 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. That number was up to 14,000 at one point Wednesday, but dropped to just over 2,000 by the end of the day as power was being restored. Trees and branches breaking or drooping and making contact with power lines seemed to be the primary cause of the outages, which were reported starting at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. The hardest hit areas were Marinette County, Wausau, Door County and Stevens Point. Outages were reported in the Merrill area as well, most notably in the southern part of the city including Marshfield Clinic's Merrill Center and Riverside Athletic Club.
The city of Merrill declared a snow emergency Wednesday, with parking on city streets prohibited from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
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