An emergency shelter has been established atop Mount Lemmon for residents stuck in the snow and without electricity or phone service.
The Mount Lemmon Community Center has been converted into a shelter that will be used both for residents and emergency crews working to restore power, said Patti Woodcock, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Office of Emergency Management.
It was unknown how many people would use the shelter, said Woodcock, adding officials with the Mount Lemmon Fire District planned to go door-to-door to see who was stranded.
Power remains out for the 479 customers serviced by Trico Electric Cooperative, spokeswoman Romi Carrell Wittman said. Repair crews were hoping to get up the mountain once the road had been cleared, she said.
The Red Cross is also assisting in the Mount Lemmon effort, providing cots and food that firefighters will transport from the base of the mountain — where the highway has been closed since Thursday afternoon.
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While Mount Lemmon remains without power, nearly all of the Tohono O’odham Nation has gotten its electricity back, officials said.
About 95 percent of the approximately 15,000 customers who lost power had it restored by late Thursday night, tribal spokesman Pete Delgado said.
