One person died in a severe storm that passed through Maine on Thursday.

The Corinth Fire Department said in a social media post that crews were dispatched around 1:20 p.m. for a single-vehicle accident involving a tree on Route 15.

A branch from a tree had fallen and gone through the windshield, the Penobscot County Sheriff said.

“We extend our deepest condolences to family and friends of those involved and ask for thoughts for those responders that handled this very difficult incident,” the department said.

The severe thunderstorms in the area made the response “somewhat difficult,” the department said in its post.

First responders transported one person to a hospital and provided care for another person, but the driver of the vehicle died, the fire department said.

It also saw tens of thousands of people lose power across the state.

Over 36,000 Central Maine Power customers were without electricity as of about 3 p.m., according to the company’s website. Versant Power had over 150 outages impacting nearly 13,800 customers around the same time, according to its website. Those were primarily in the Bangor and Downeast regions.

By 6:30 p.m., more than 43,000 CMP customers were without power, including over 10,000 in Kennebec County, about 8,800 in Oxford County, and nearly 6,000 in Lincoln County.

Over 7,300 customers in Franklin County were impacted by the outages as of 3 p.m., and just 1,000 fewer there were still without power as of 6:30 p.m. Penobscot County, where 6,000 customers were without power in the afternoon, had just over 280 customers without it as of 6:30 p.m.

Versant Power’s also crept up in the evening, with over 16,800 customers without power as of 6:30 p.m.

A slew of public safety departments reported responding to calls for wires and trees down in roadways in social media posts Thursday, from Rumford to Rockport to St. Albans.

The Rockport Police Department notified the public around 3:20 p.m. that Main Street between Cross Street and Simonton Corner was shut down until further notice, with a large tree and wires completely blocking the roadway.

The Thorndike Fire Department also reported a road closure Thursday afternoon along Gordon Hill Road (Route 139) near the intersection of Route 220, while the Lincolnville Fire Department announced Route 52 was closed, both due to fallen trees and power lines.

Mount Vernon, Fayette and West Gardiner were among the Kennebec County towns that were particularly hard hit by the fast-moving storms, although reports of trees and wires down surfaced across the county.

Eastern Aroostook County, Central Piscataquis County, and north-central Penobscot Counties were under severe thunderstorm watches by the National Weather Service until 3 p.m. Thursday.

The weather service also placed much of Maine’s coastline under a special marine warning, stretching from Port Clyde to Cape Elizabeth, until 3:30 p.m. That warning calls for wind gusts up to 40 knots that could damage small vessels and cause higher waves.

This is a developing story.