LIINCOLNVILLE — A man hiking up Bald Mountain was helped back down the trail by Lincolnville firefighters and emergency service personnel after suffering a diabetic attack Monday afternoon.

The medical emergency required that firefighters unlock the Bald Rock access road gate, at the base of the popular hiking trail on Youngtown Road. A North East ambulance then traveled approximately a mile up the road, which was improved several years ago with grading and a new gravel base. Firefighters followed in the ranger, an all-terrain vehicle.

When they arrived at the base of the mountain trail that continues up to the 1,200-foot Bald Rock summit, Lincolnville fire department responders took the ATV up the trail, met the man in distress, and transported him back down to the waiting ambulance.

"We got right to him," said Lincolnville Fire Chief Ben Hazen. "He is safe and sound."

The town's firefighters also responded to another incident Saturday evening, July 20, at 915 Beach Road (Route 173), where plastic melting in a hot oven created kitchen havoc.

There, the occupant had placed plastic containers into a hot oven, which then proceeded to melt and result in fire. Heat inside the gas-fired oven built to such intensity that it blew the glass out of the inside of the oven door, sending shards across the oven's interior.

The occupant had extinguished the fire with water prior to the fire department's arrival.

Firefighters subsequently aired the house out with a positive pressure fan, eliminating the smell of burning plastic from the building.