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Fire Reports | February 21-27, 2019

Published: Feb 28, 2019 4:00 pm

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

Thursday, February 21: 3:22 pm, motor vehicle accident, near 53 Great Hill Road, Hawleyville responded.

Friday, February 22: No calls listed.

Saturday, February 23: 9:38 pm, alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, February 24: 4:17 pm, medical assist, Cobblers Mill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:34 pm, medical assist, Merlins Lane, Dodgingtown responded; 6:17 pm, medical assist, Johnson Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, February 25: 9:28 am, alarm, near intersection of Head O’ Meadow Road and Sugar Lane, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 10:49 am, wires down, near 36 Scudder Road, Dodgingtown responded; 11:16 am, wires down, near 63 Butterfield Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:02 pm, wires down, near 25 Zoar Road, Sandy Hook responded (see photo above); 12:03 pm, wires down, near 10 Great Hill Road, Hawleyville responded; 12:40 pm, wires down, near 3 Commerce Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:49 pm, wires down, near 47 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:51 pm, alarm, 21 Commerce Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 1:02 pm, investigation, 166 Jennifer Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 1:22 pm, investigation, 166 Jennifer Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 2:48 pm, wires down, near 141 Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown responded; 4:09 pm, wires down, near intersection of Head O’ Meadow Road and Sugar Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:13 pm, wires down, near 22 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 4:22 pm, wires down, near 4 Shepaug Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:37 pm, wires down, near 6 Old Green Road, Sandy Hook responded; 6:49 pm, motor vehicle accident, near 56 Farrell Road, Hawleyville responded; 6:51 pm, wires down, near the intersection of Berkshire Road and Old Mill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:03 pm, alarm, 5 Sugarloaf Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, February 26: 10:49 am, alarm, 1 Jacklin Road, Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, and Hook & Ladder responded; 12:04 pm, alarm, 97 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 4:22 pm, motor vehicle accident, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9 pm, investigation, near intersection of Church Hill Road and The Boulevard, Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, February 27: 8:08 am, mutual aid call to Monroe, Botsford, Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, Sandy Hook, and Hook & Ladder responded as a Rapid Intervention Team for a structure fire at 80 Pepper Street; 5:05 pm, hazardous condition, intersection of Main Street, Church Hill Road, and West Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

<p>Firefighter Steve Stohl walks toward Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue’s brush truck on Monday, February 25, while on a call for wires down at 25 Zoar Road. During strong winds that morning, a tree limb had broken off, taking primary wires with it. A utility box on a garage at the property had its connection point pulled apart (inset), resulting in a small fire and then arcing. The roadway was closed until Eversource could respond to that location. Firefighters from all five of Newtown’s companies responded to similar calls for trees and/or wires down all day. A few roads were temporarily closed, but no injuries resulted from the incidents. Approximately 425 Eversource customers in Newtown were without power at 7 pm Monday, but the utility was able to knock that number down within a few hours. (Bee Photo, Hicks; and (inset) Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue photo) </p>

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I want to clarify something that was not clear in my letter. Newtown DOES have an affordable housing plan, put together with the aid of the Council of Governments (COG) in 2022 and approved by the LC that year. The strategies in that plan are to "encourage", "support", "explore", "promote" various aspects of state and local affordable housing programs. Those strategies are largely repeated in the Housing Chapter of the Plan of Conservation and Development being finalized now. Newtown needs to measure its performance against those strategies and refine them to reflect the current situation and evaluate whether we are eligible for a moratorium on 8-30(g) projects if we have met the criteria. It's a question of being more specific and more rigorous in what we as a community would like to see to address this real and serious need, rather than to be on our heels when a developer proposes a project on their terms. An independent look outside the application process would be best for that. Thank you. Peter.

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I on Glover Ave. walk my two Labs every morning and evening. Drivers are constantly cutting me off at the shopping center entrance and other driveways. There is no understanding of pedestrians rights. Drives make left turns onto Queen when its forbidden. Most cars cruse right thru the crosswalks without stopping for pedestrians. The Police have not issued one citation nor even a warming for crosswalk violations. The situation is out of control and now a loved resident, Pete, and a pet, Coby have been killed. Time for a plan. The problem is not Intersections, nor traffic, the problem 98s drivers and lack of enforcement. The plan need to create a culture that drivers obey speed limits and honor pedestrians right of ways. Isn't that the job of the Police Department and The Police Commission, to protect Newtowns citizens. This is a call to action.

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Its already too late, the Nimby mob have scared developers so that their only option is to use the state wide 8-30 exemption to get around the local zoning board. Thanks Nimby mob.

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Ya gotta pay more to live in a Blue state and subsidize the 'affordable' folks.

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