Heavy, wet snow and high winds toppled trees into roads and power lines this weekend, triggering a string of power outages across the region.

The first snowstorm of the season also coated local roads, contributing to a series of car crashes and collisions, none of which appear to have been serious.

A steady rain changed over to snow by mid-afternoon Saturday, accumulating to several inches in Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and surrounding towns. The snow continued overnight and into Sunday morning before relenting.

The Lake Placid area was one of the hardest hit by the storm. The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department responded to 18 storm-related calls between 5 p.m. Saturday and 6:52 a.m. Sunday, according to Matt Colby, the village’s head fire driver.

“We were running all over the place,” he said. “It was all for trees on power lines and transformers.”

The department answered calls on Powerhouse Lane, Mirror Lake Drive, state Route 86 and Old Military Road. Power lines crashed onto an unoccupied car on McLenathen Avenue. A power pole broke on Station Street by the Mill Pond dam.

“We cleared a lot of trees and debris out of the road but didn’t do anything power related,” Colby said. “We stood by and waited for the electric department.”

The Lake Placid area experienced power outages caused by trees bending or breaking onto power lines, according to a post early Sunday morning on the Lake Placid Professional Firefighters Local 4608 Facebook page. Some of the areas that lost power include River Road and Deerwood Hills, Peninsula Road, most of Cascade Road, Bobsled Run Lane and Bear Cub Lane.

“The electric department is working as quickly as possible to restore power to all customers,” the post reads.

Some people were still waiting this morning for power to be restored. National Grid, on its Storm Center web page, reported 150 people in Tupper Lake still without power. A handful of its customers in Paul Smiths, Onchiota and the Vermontville area were also waiting for their service to be restored. The utility company listed an estimated restoration time of noon today for these customers.

Slick road conditions contributed to multiple car crashes Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. State police said they responded to car accidents in the village of Lake Placid, the village of Saranac Lake, the town of Brighton, the town of Harrietstown and the town of Tupper Lake. None were described as personal injury crashes, just property damage. Troopers also responded to reports of blocked roads and disabled vehicles.

The Paul Smiths-Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department responded to a pair of car crashes on Saturday, although the times weren’t given: a-one car rollover down an embankment near 549 state Route 86, and a one-truck rollover on state Route 30 by Slush Pond.

Saranac Lake firefighters responded to a half-dozen storm-related calls between 11:02 p.m. Saturday and 9:55 a.m. Sunday, according to fire driver John Derby. The department responded to calls on Forest Home Road, state Route 30 in Lake Clear, Panther Mountain Road, Bloomingdale Road and Kiwassa Road. Most were for trees down on power lines, wires down or trees blocking the road.

The Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a report of numerous trees down on Oregon Plains Road at 5:44 a.m. Sunday. Two trucks and eight members responded, clearing the trees and debris from the road.

At 6:20 a.m. Sunday, Bloomingdale firefighters also were called to Franklin County Route 55 to assist Paul Smiths-Gabriels firefighters with reported trees down.

Bloomingdale firefighters were back in action at 12:28 p.m. Sunday for a report of a power line in the road and arcing on Tyler Road in Vermontville. Eleven members and one truck stood by until 3:05 p.m., when a National Grid crew arrived.

Another tree on a power line was reported on Franklin County Route 26 in Loon Lake at 12:48 p.m. Sunday. Bloomingdale firefighters responded with one truck and 12 members. The tree was removed and they were back in service at 1:47 p.m.

In Tupper Lake, firefighters received a report of a tree blocking the road on state Route 30, in the Saranac Inn area, at 3:33 p.m. Saturday. The engine stood down before the department could respond.

The department was also called to a tree blocking state Route 30 in the Fish Creek area at 7:24 p.m. Saturday. The engine stood down after firefighters learned a state Department of Transportation crew had cleared the tree.

Tupper Lake firefighters also were called to a tree down on Littlefield Road at 8:27 p.m. Saturday, and they responded in mutual aid to the Piercefield firehouse at 8:36 p.m. Saturday so Piercefield firefighters could handle a reported tree down in a road. Tupper Lake firefighters went out again at 1:50 a.m. today for a tree on power lines at 425 Hosley Ave.

Many people also enjoyed the snow, building snowmen or skiing on the Whiteface Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway.