NORTHWOOD LAKE, N.H. -- The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado hit Deerfield, N.H., where woman died Thursday. Tornados have been confirmed in four New Hampshire towns, and officials were still analyzing damage in two more.

Category 2 tornados with winds of 111 to 135 mph tore through at least two of the towns, meteorologists said.

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"You could see the debris all going up -- I don't just mean little chunks of debris, I mean chunks of roof with shingles falling off," witness Gary Lee said.

The storms are New Hampshire's first deadly tornados in the state's recorded history, Storm Team 5's J.C. Monahan reported.

Meanwhile, crews in the Granite State continued to assess damage Friday and worked to help dozens of residents who lost their homes.

The hardest hit areas were Barnstead and Epsom. In nearby Deerfield, Brenda Stevens, 57, was killed when her log home collapsed on Northwood Lake. Her 3-month-old grandson and husband survived.

"I know it was her that saved the 3-month-old baby. She was sitting in a rocking chair next to the fireplace rocking the baby when it happened," one neighbor said.

Baby John Paul Stevens escaped the chaos with barely a scratch.

"The baby is still at Concord Hospital. I was just told it is ready to be released and they are going to go pick the baby up," said Epsom Fire Chief Stewart Yeaton.

Gov. John Lynch toured the Northwood Lake area on Friday morning. He walked through the devastated neighborhoods and talked to residents about what help they needed. Lynch declared a state of emergency in five counties.

Utility companies said early Friday about 1,000 customers were still without power in the Alton-Barnstead-Strafford area. There were another 200 in Ossipee, Effingham and Freedom, plus about 100 around Epsom, Northwood and Pittsfield.

On Route 107, crews were continuing to clear away trees that took down power lines, while others were working to move debris.

"It just sheared massive trees off up in the air. It didn't rip them off, it sheared them off," said tree worker Colby Davis.

Tom Williams barn in Barnstead, N.H., was picked up and tossed. His house was mangled and most of trees came down.

"I thought the house was going to come right off. I lost a corner of it here, but that can be repaired. That's no problem there. But it felt like the whole house was going to come right up in the air and go," he said.

"We were sitting watching TV and I saw it coming down through here and I grabbed the two kids and ran 'em into the bathroom and that was it," Williams said.

"The devastation is a track that runs across the whole town and is about the width of four car lanes, with complete breakdown lanes, and the area is basically flattened," Barnstead Fire Chief George Krause said.

The Merrills saw their garage picked up and thrown across the road. They spent the night without power.

The area has been restricted because of the power outages and downed power lines.

"I used to think storms were pretty exciting, but not anymore," said Joynce Hennessey, a woman who lives down the street from the house where Stevens was killed.

"She's a grandmother, loved living on the lake, like all of us. We've all known each other for years and years," she said.

The same storm system also dumped torrential rains in western Maine towns, causing outages that at one point knocked out virtually all of the eastern part of the state.

"It was raining cats and dogs, and maybe a cow or two," Rumford Police Dispatcher Tracy Higley said after a downpour in the western mountain town.

A funnel cloud was reported in Bridgton, where trees were uprooted by high winds.

Kirk Apffel of the National Weather Service office in Gray said a team will be sent to the site Friday to inspect the damage and determine whether a tornado had hit the area.

Central Maine Power Co. reported more than 3,000 outages late Thursday afternoon affecting customers from York County in the south to Dover-Foxcroft in Piscataquis County.