A severe thunderstorm that moved through Millburn-Short Hills Wednesday afternoon brought down trees and power lines and sent one person to the hospital.

The thunderstorm moved through the area just after 2 p.m., bringing with it heavy rain and high winds. After the storm, sirens from emergency vehicles could be heard in every direction in town.

Fire Battalion Chief Ed Wade said after the storm, the emergency calls started to pour in to dispatchers with complaints about downed wires and limbs that had fallen.

One of the branches fell onto a mail truck at the corner of Cypress Road and Wyoming Avenue and injured the mail carrier inside, according to Police Capt. James Miller, police public information officer. The mail carrier was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.

In addition to the mail truck, branches fell onto four or five other vehicles throughout the community, Miller said. Workers from the Department of Public Works were busy removing trees from roads, including the westbound lanes of Millburn Avenue near Millburn High School.

NJ Transit trains were also stopped for a period of time at the Short Hills Train Station because of a tree that had fallen into the wires above the train tracks. Crowds of people were standing on the platform, talking on cellular phones, trying to find an alternate way home, before train conductors announced that the trains were set to move again.

Miller said there were a handful of homes with individual power problems, but there were no large-scale power outages in Millburn-Short Hills. Glen Avenue from Brookside Drive to the Millburn Public Library at Lackawanna Place was also closed due to a power line that fell into the road, Miller said.

Traffic was also backed up through downtown Millburn on Old Short Hills Road and Brookside Drive after Route 280 in West Orange was flooded, causing people to get off the highway and use the local roads.

A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 8 p.m., and there could be more lines of severe storms to move through the area.

Millburn-Short Hills has been subject to severe thunderstorms the last few days. A storm on Sunday produced some flooding in the South Mountain section of town and hail.

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