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Fire Reports | February 11-17, 2021

Published: Feb 22, 2021 7:00 am

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:

Thursday, February 11: 6:10 am, structure fire–commercial, Swamp Road, Botsford, Hook & Ladder, Sandy Hook, Hawleyville, and Dodgingtown responded.

Friday, February 12: 9:44 am, fire alarm–commercial, South Main Street, Botsford responded; 3:03 pm, chimney fire, Totem Trail, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:45 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Saw Mill Road, Hawleyville responded; 5:46 pm, tree/wires down, Old Hawleyville Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:57 pm, mutual aid, Plumtrees Road, Dodgingtown responded; 11:20 pm, fire alarm–commercial, South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Saturday, February 13: 12:16 pm, service call, Boulevard, Hook & Ladder covered; 6:33 pm, smoke/odor investigation, Park Lane, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, February 14: 9:00 am, MVA with injury, Toddy Hill/Settlers Lane, Botsford responded; 8:09 pm, MVA with injury, Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 8:09 pm, MVA with injury, I-84 West between Exits 10-9, Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, February 15: 7:47 pm, MVA with injury, South Main Street/Grenbriar Lane, Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, February 17: 1:00 pm, fire alarm–residential, Briarwood Lane, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded.

Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Captain Rob Sibley walks toward the entrance of a home on Totem Trail last Friday afternoon, while fellow SHVFR firefighters continue working to clear a chimney following a fire. SHVFR Second Assistant Chief Andy Ryan is on the roof, clearing creosote and other debris from the chimney’s pipes. Hook & Ladder was also dispatched to the February 12 call, but held at their station. Sandy Hook firefighters also helped ventilate the residence for its owners. No injuries were reported. —Bee Photo, Hicks

Botsford Fire Rescue firefighters stand behind a sedan that rolled onto its roof after its driver lost control while traveling on Toddy Hill Road around 9 am Sunday, February 14. The female driver was the only person in the vehicle at the time of the incident. She was able to self-extricate and was transported to a hospital by Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Newtown police and a paramedic also responded to the call. Additional details were unavailable when this week’s newspaper went to press. —Botsford Fire Rescue photo

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Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

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Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

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The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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