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Fire Reports | March 12-18, 2020

Published: Mar 23, 2020 6:15 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, March 12: 3:05 pm, alarm, 3 Saw Mill Ridge Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded.

Friday, March 13: 12:52 am, alarm, 10 Mile Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:04 am, medical assist, Spruce Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 3:30 pm, wires down near the intersection of Berkshire Road and Bradley Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 8:21 pm, alarm, 9 Russett Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, March 14: 2:26 am, motor vehicle accident, Jangling Plain Road, Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, and Hook & Ladder responded; 8:33 am, medical assist, Toddy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 10:56 am, hazardous condition, 46 Chestnut Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:22 am, alarm, 2 Erin Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 12:30 pm, illegal burn/outdoor fire, near 21 Valley Field Road South, Sandy Hook responded; 1:24 pm, alarm, 22 Turkey Hill Road, Botsford responded.

Sunday, March 15: 2:44 pm, medical assist, Old Bethel Road, Hawleyville responded; 2:59 pm, illegal burn/outdoor fire, near 211 Hanover Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:17 pm, investigation, near intersection of Huntingtown Road and Sycamore Drive, Botsford responded.

Monday, March 16: 3:43 pm, investigation, 161 Jennifer Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 5:47 pm, alarm, 46 Barnabas Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:30 pm, investigation, 43 Waterview Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 11:53 pm, wires down, near 59 Jeremiah Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, March 17: 11:01 am, alarm, 28 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:10 pm, alarm, 24 Pearl Street, Sandy Hook responded.

Wednesday, March 18: 12:34 pm, initial report of a brush fire, which was actually a controlled burning situation, near the intersection of Hawleyville Road and Farrell Road, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 2:56 pm, investigation, near the intersection of Hawleyville Road and Farrell Road, Hawleyville responded; 3:38 pm, public service, 3 Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

A firefighter stands next to Newtown Hook & Ladder Engine 1 on Sunday, March 15, the second of a two-day class on drafting and tanker shuttle operations. Dodgingtown Volunteer Fire Company hosted the class, which was led by two instructors from Connecticut Fire Academy. Sixteen firefighters from Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, Sandy Hook, Southbury, and Stony Hill attended a classroom session on Saturday, March 14, according to Dodgingtown Chief Steve Murphy. Those firefighters and additional members of Botsford, Newtown Hook & Ladder, and West Redding then put everything into practice on Sunday, using apparatus from all eight companies. Chief Murphy considered it a productive class. “A successful class would have flowed 500 gallons a minute through a tanker shuttle for two hours, continuously, without losing water,” he said March 18. “We did 800 gallons a minute.”—photo courtesy Stony HillVolunteer Fire Company

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Snapshot: Dolly White

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A Development Must Be A Good Fit

Head on a swivel at all times - especially in grocery parking lots! Keep an eye out for folks turning at the flagpole - it befuddles them at times.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

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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