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Fire Reports | August 25–31, 2021

Published: Sep 06, 2021 6:00 am

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:

Wednesday, August 25: 7:45 am, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Exit 11/commuter lot, Sandy Hook responded; 8:07 am, fire alarm-residential, Overlook Knoll Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 8:24 am, tree/wires down, Scudder Road, Dodgingtown responded; 12:20 pm, tree/wires down, Poverty Hollow Road/Morris Road, Dodgingtown responded; 3:27 pm, fire alarm-commercial, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 8:06 pm, CO alarm, Cherry Heights Terrace, Sandy Hook responded; 9:02 pm, fire alarm-commercial, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Thursday, August 26: 3:42 am, hazardous materials, Mt Pleasant/Covered Bridge, Hawleyville responded; 8:59 am, smoke/odor investigation, King Philip Trail, Sandy Hook responded; 1:59 pm, medical assist, High Bridge Road, Botsford responded; 4:18 pm, medical assist, Covered Bridge, Hawleyville responded; 4:58 pm, service call, Hemlock Road, Botsford covered.

Friday, August 27: 8:08 am, fire alarm-commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 9:14 am, service call, Main Street/Church Hill, Hook & Ladder covered; 9:20 am, tree/wires down, Cedar Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:18 pm, tree/wires down, Bradley Lane/Grace Moore Road, Sandy Hook responded; 2:39 pm, fire alarm-residential, Sugarloaf Road, Sandy Hook and Botsford responded; 2:48 pm, fire alarm-residential, Schoolhouse Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 2:58 pm, fire alarm-residential, Whippoorwill Hill Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 8:15 pm, tree/wires down, Hattertown Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Saturday, August 28: 10:43 am, tree/wires down, Gelding Hill/Russett Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:39 pm, MVA with injury, Boggs Hill Road, Dodgintwon responded; 8:41 pm, fire alarm-commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, August 29: 5:27 am, station assist, Great Pond Road, Ridgefield, Hook & Ladder and NUSAR responded; 9:07 am, medical assist, I-84 West between Exits 9-8, Hawleyville responded; 12:09 pm, medical assist, Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 6:26 pm, fire alarm-residential, Acorn Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9:48 pm, tree/wires down, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, August 30: 6:46 pm, MVA with injury, Church Hill Road/Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Tuesday, August 31: 7:06 am, fire alarm-commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 10:10 am, medical assist, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 4:26 pm, service call, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook covered; 6:30 pm, service call, Main Street/Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered.

A two-truck crash on I-84 West in Newtown, around 8 am, September 1, snarled traffic for hours on the interstate and through much of the center of town. Connecticut State Police, Hook & Ladder firefighters, the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, a paramedic, state DOT and DEEP crews, and at least one wrecker responded to just east of Parmalee Hill Road after one tanker hit the guardrail and a second tractor-trailer jack-knifed. Responders reported that fluids leaked from at least one of the vehicles. Both drivers were checked for injuries, but neither required further medical attention. The crash slowed traffic to a crawl for hours, with delays quickly extending to Exit 14 in Southbury. No additional information was available at press time, Thursday, September 2. —Bee Photo, Hicks

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You are correct, Bruce. I know how hard these plans are to put together, but I still believe that we can have more definitive and measurable goals. I know there are a number of units coming online, and the community truly needs them. If only we can move the development of affordable housing to more of a partnership between the community and the developers than the adversarial tug-of-war it seems to be now, that would be good progress.

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Here is the plan Newtown signed on to. https://westcog.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Final-Newtown-Affordable-Housing-Annex_2022.pdf

I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.

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We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.” In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts: Regional Toolbox Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.

Great Idea. We used a similar process when Pat Llodra wanted input on Fairfield Hills. very useful.

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