ROCKPORT — The Rockport Fire Department was busy July 2, more so with a violent mid-afternoon thunderstorm, and fielded enough calls to break their normal three-call string of events into a four-call day — but Fire Chief Jason Peasley is hoping now that they’ll be done with all calls until at least Monday.

The first incident occurred at 11:30 a.m., when a resident on Mechanic Street in Rockport Village reported a microwave oven fire.

A Pyrex dish, designed to function in a microwave oven, apparently failed to perform and the kitchen filled with smoke.

The fire extinguished itself, but firefighters used a fan to clear the smoke and odor of plastic from the house.

The next call came at 1:20 p.m. with the report of heavy smoke at an office at Plants Unlimited, on Route 1, in Rockport.

Personnel at the business evacuated the building, and when firefighters arrived they found that a desktop computer had internally started to burn.

The battery tripped the hardware off, but not before the fire filled the office with light smoke.

The third call came in the middle of the 2 p.m. thunderstorm that raged through the Midcoast. A tree had fallen on a wire on Park Street near the Goose River Golf Course.

That sent the live wires draping into the roadway.

Firefighters closed Park Street to traffic and a crew from Central Maine Power arrived within 15 minutes to take care of the wire, as the storm pressed through.

Then, just as the fire department was hoping the day would calmly end, another call came, this time for a tree that had fallen on an arcing wire on Beech Hill Road.

Firefighters, especially the 11 volunteers who spent July 2 responding to emergencies, are hoping for an uneventful Independence Day holiday.