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Fire Reports | April 11-17, 2019

Published: Apr 18, 2019 4:15 pm

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

Thursday, April 11: 5:58 pm, brush fire, near 11 Valley Field Road South, Sandy Hook responded.

Friday, April 12: 6:20 am, medical assist, Tower Road, Hawleyville responded; 8:09 public service, 12 Dickinson Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 11:08 am, medical assist, Hattertown Road, Dodgingtown responded; 10:09 pm, motor vehicle accident, intersection of South Main Street, Meadowbrook Road, and Botsford Hill Road, Botsford responded.

Saturday, April 13: No calls listed.

Sunday, April 14: 9:08 am, wires down, near intersection of Rock Ridge Road and Birch Hill Road, Dodgingtown and Hawleyville responded; 11:09 am, alarm, 27 Taunton Lane, Hawleyville responded.

Monday, April 15: 3:04 am, alarm, 266 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 5:16 am, investigation, 55 Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:16 am, alarm, 10 Taunton Lake Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:45 pm, wires down, near 63 Hanover Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:39 am, medical assist, Hattertown Road, Dodgingtown responded; 10:24 am, medical assist, Great Hill Road, Dodgingtown and Hawleyville responded.

Tuesday, April 16: 1:25 am, alarm, 11 Split Rock Road, Dodgingtown responded; 6:24 am, medical assist, Brookside Court, Hawleyville responded; 7:55 am, motor vehicle accident, near the intersection of Hanover Road and Schoolhouse Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:59 am, alarm, 70 Elizabeth Circle, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 2:54 pm, alarm, 41 West Street, Hook & Ladder and Dodgingtown responded; 2:59 pm, wires down, near 87 Taunton Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 9:45 pm, motor vehicle accident, near intersection of South Main Street and Greenbriar lane, Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, April 17: 8:28 am, motor vehicle accident, Main Street flagpole intersection, Hook & Ladder responded; 8:29 pm, alarm, 600 Brookside Court, Hawleyville responded; 10:26 pm, medical assist, Watkins Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Newtown Hook & Ladder Chief Chris Ward (partially hidden, fifth from left), watches while a pair of firefighters place a ladder against the side of an attached garage on the back end of a former Fairfield Hills residential building. Meanwhile, a second team had already placed their ladder, and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Firefighter Mikko Muro was heading toward one of the second floor windows. Chief Ward oversaw training for the two companies on Sunday, April 14, when the focus was on ladders. The company's ladder trucks were also used during the drill, which lasted for a few hours. (Bee Photo, Hicks)

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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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