RANGELEY — Several trucks got stuck on slick Dodge Pond Hill on Tuesday, closing Route 4 for hours, fire Chief Tim Pellerin said.

At about 10 a.m. a logging truck and another truck got stuck, he said. The Maine Department of Transportation was called and the road was sanded and the trucks went on their way.

At about 1 p.m. a tractor-trailer truck got stuck and couldn’t make the hill, followed by an empty gasoline truck and a DOT dump truck that couldn’t make the hill to get sand and salt, he said.

Pellerin said the firetrucks were called out to help but he knew if he was having trouble with his four-wheel-drive truck they wouldn’t make it either. The road was closed from 1 to 3:30 p.m., he said.

The temperature was about freezing and it was sleeting and snowing.

Rangeley Public Works was called out to help sand and salt the roads to get the traffic going.

Pellerin said he contacted the DOT and asked them to make sure the road is sanded and salted better in the future. He said the weather changes often, but it is the major route in and out of the town and surrounding areas. The firetrucks need to be able to make these hills, he said.

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