ROCKPORT — The call came just after midnight, April 10, of a single vehicle crash on Route 1 in Rockport, with a Dodge Caravan wrapped around a power pole.

When first responders arrived — 13 members of the volunteer Rockport Fire Department, Rockport and Camden police officers, and an ambulance crew with North East Mobile Health Services — they found a woman driver trapped in her minivan, which was upside down and balanced precariously on a stone wall, held up by one power pole guide wire.

While enroute to the crash, Rockport Fire Chief Jason Peasley got the word from Rockport Police Officer Jake Powers that extrication from the minivan was needed, and when he arrived, it was apparent that the work required additional technical equipment. He called Rockland Fire Department, which responded with a five-man crew.

Rescue work entailed stabilizing the vehicle with rescue struts, and ropes tied to nearby trees, while Steve Laite, a Rockport firefighter and owner of Camden Exxon, ran a winch cable from the car to his truck.

“It was probably the most technical extrication we have ever done in our careers,” said Chief Peasley.

The woman was coherent, he said, and was removed from the vehicle approximately 45 minutes later. She was alone in her car.

She had been traveling southbound on Route 1 when she went off the road near the entrance to the Fox Ridge commercial offices of Camden National Bank.

The car traveled for at least 30 feet in the air, said Peasley, before slamming into the Central Maine Power pole.

Once the woman was out of the vehicle, North East transported her to Pen Bay Medical Center, in Rockport.

This story will be updated when more details are made available.