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Fire Reports | July 7-13, 2016

By Shannon Hicks

Published: Jul 14, 2016 12:00 am

The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:Thursday, July 7: 4:41 pm, wires down, near 100 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 4:50 pm, burning odor indoors, 51 Scudder Road, Dodgingtown responded; 6:09 pm, wires down, near 15 Cherry Street, Sandy Hook responded.Friday, July 8: 2:43 am, alarm, 139 Toddy Hill Road, Botsford, Sandy Hook, and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:08 am, alarm, 139 Toddy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 11:35 am, alarm, 45 Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 11:47 am, wires down, near 6 Edgewood Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 3:59 pm, hazardous condition, near 34 Sugar Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:15 pm, public service, Main Street flagpole, Hook & Ladder responded.Saturday, July 9: 9:57 am, investigation, 174 Julia Court, Sandy Hook responded.Sunday, July 10: 2:43 am, vehicle fire, I-84, Sandy Hook responded; 11:38 am, alarm, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:07 pm, medical assist, Old Farm Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded.Monday, July 11: 7:56 am, motor vehicle accident, near 8 Stony Brook Road, Hawleyville responded; 5:32 pm, motor vehicle accident, near 1 Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown responded.Tuesday, July 12: 2:40 am, alarm, 153 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 4:32 am, alarm, 153 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 9:03 am, vehicle fire, 151 South Main Street, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:25 pm, alarm, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded.Wednesday, July 13: 2:25 am, wires down, near 33 Hilldale Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 7:38 am, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 11:01 am public service, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:33 am, public service, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:57 am, alarm, 14 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 1:34 pm, mutual aid to Brookfield, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 4 pm, alarm, 14 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 5:01 pm, alarm, 166 Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 5:37 pm, public service, Main Street flagpole, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:05 pm, alarm, 166 Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 6:09 pm, alarm, 6 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:10 pm, mutual aid call to Southbury, Sandy Hook responded.

Newtown Hook & Ladder volunteer firefighters hope to be using their new firehouse at 12 Church Hill Road by mid-August. On Wednesday, July 13, paving work was underway at the firehouse site, where a pumphouse for the Aquarion Water Company also is under construction. The new firehouse features four double-depth garage bays, which have automatic overhead doors on both the front and rear of the building. Electric service is scheduled to be connected to the firehouse soon. Carpeted flooring will soon be installed. The new firehouse will replace the dilapidated town-owned firehouse at 45 Main Street currently used by the fire company. (Bee Photo, Gorosko)

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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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