It was a busy Sunday for the Department of Infrastructure as Storm Isha battered the Isle of Man.
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.
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 our out of hours duty officer and deploy resources. The number of on-call Highway Services incident response teams was increased from 2 to 6.
Department of Infrastructure
A member of staff was also based at the Emergency Joint Control Room for the evening in order to co-ordinate our response to emerging incidents with the emergency services and other authorities.
Teams have been clearing trees from several locations and are currently clearing fallen trees from various locations in Maughold, and Ballaleigh Road in Michael.
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