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Fire Reports | July 9-16, 2020

Published: Jul 20, 2020 6:00 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, July 9: 2:13 pm, odor of burning inside, Brushy Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 7:40 pm, alarm residential, Bridge End Farm Lane, Sandy Hook responded.

Friday, July 10: 5:40 am, medical assist, Carol Ann Drive, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:44 pm, alarm commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 1:37 pm, alarm commercial, Glen Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:13 pm, wires down, Rock Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:08 pm, wires down, Turkey Hill Road, Botsford responded; 7:50 pm, wires down, Dinglebrook Lane, Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, July 11: 2:49 am, alarm residential, Sugar Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:03 am, investigation, Gelding Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 7:37 am, alarm residential, Bridge End Farm Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 10:27 am, wires down, Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:22 am, wires down, High Rock Road, Botsford responded; 11:39 am, wires down, Twist Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:06 pm, alarm residential, Hyvue Drive, Dodgingtown responded; 12:35 pm, medical assist, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:44 pm, alarm commercial, Commerce Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:37 pm, alarm residential, Bridge End Farm Lane, Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, July 12: 1:08 am, alarm commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:48 am, medical assist, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:04 pm, medical assist, Riverside Road/Alpine Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 12:50 pm, investigation, Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 2:12 pm, public service, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook covered; 2:48 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) w/injury, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:11 pm, medical assist, I-84 East btw. exits 9-10, Hawleyville responded; 8:35 pm, MVA with injury and extrication, Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 10:14 pm, wires down, Parmalee Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:36 pm, alarm residential, Bridge End Farm Lane, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, July 13: 2:55 am, alarm commercial, Primrose Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:34 am, alarm commercial, Primrose Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 11:46 am, wires down, Saddle Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded; 1:04 pm, alarm commercial, Edmund Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 3:50 pm, investigation, Edgewood Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 5:02 pm, alarm residential, Hawthorne Hill Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:42 pm, alarm commercial, Primrose Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Tuesday, July 14: 7:14 pm, wires down, South Main Street, Botsford responded; 8:06 pm, illegal burn, Martin Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, July 15: 1:32 pm, MVA with injury, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue, Newtown Police, and two crews from Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps all responded to the area of 186 Berkshire Road around 2:50 pm Sunday, July 12, after a Ford Explorer went off the road and struck a tree. The vehicle had been traveling west on the state road when it went off the northern shoulder approximately 550 feet northwest of Berkshire’s intersection with Homer Clark Road. Seven passengers of varying ages were in the vehicle at the time of the incident, and all were transported to a hospital for treatment of injuries. The collision caused delays in both directions for nearly 45 minutes while first responders were on the scene. Additional information was not available when this week’s Newtown Bee went to press. —Bee Photo, Hicks

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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.

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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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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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