Have there been any major disasters in Gray?

On December 30, 1921 a fire consumed seven structures in the center of Gray Village. Despite bitter cold, the town's fire "company" established a bucket brigade from nearby wells and springs. Through their brave efforts, the large number of crowded structures just east of Main Street were all saved.

During January of 1998, a disastrous ice storm downed trees and power lines leaving two-thirds of the population of the state of Maine (around 800,000 people) without power. Many citizens of Gray were without power for two weeks. Gray Fire Rescue members participated in the control and recovery effort by clearing roads and power lines of trees and debris, controlling traffic near dangerous scenes, responding to carbon monoxide and other alarms, doing house-to-house health and welfare surveys, providing transportation to the residents of several elder and special care homes, and providing medical and operational staff to a Red Cross emergency shelter in the town serving hundreds of area residents.

(1) George T. Hill: "History, Records, and Recollections of Gray, Maine (Volume 1)".