BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (WHDH) - Police have issued a warning to the public who may be using generators amid a widespread power outage in Eastern Massachusetts on Thursday.
Approximately 3,500 people in the Bridgewater area are still without power.
Officials are reminding people not to leave their generators running indoors.
“I’ve been here for 74 years and I’ve never seen anything like [the generator fire],” said Weymouth resident Kathleen Jenner.
Jenner spent most of her day on Thursday in her car to stay warm, as her house is still without power and she doesn’t have a generator.
“In the house it’s so cold, it’s like 50 [degrees]. I’m not used to this,” she said.
Jenner said she rolls down her windows while she keeps warm and charges her electronics in her car, preventing carbon monoxide poisoning.
As hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents remain without power following the fall nor’easter, officials are reminding the public to leave generators outside, not to use gas stoves or gas appliances for heat, and to make sure candles are in holders when using them for heat.
This all comes after a shed caught on fire in Bridgewater on Thursday.
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