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Fire Reports | November 30-December 6, 2022

Published: Dec 12, 2022 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, November 30: 8:56 am, vehicle fire, I-84 East between Exits 9 and 10, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 9:03 am, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, I-84 East on Exit 10 on ramp, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 2:43 pm, tree/wires down, Brushy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 2:50 pm, tree/wires down, Huntingtown Road, Botsford responded; 2:54 pm, tree/wires down, Currituck Road/Parmalee Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:26 pm, service call, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder and Dodgingtown covered; 4:42 pm, fire alarm, Old Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 4:53 pm, MVA with injury, I-84 East on Exit 9 off ramp, Hook & Ladder and Hawleyville responded; 6:47 pm, tree/wires down, Key Rock, Dodgingtown responded; 8:14 pm, tree/wires down, Head of Meadow Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:12 pm, fire alarm, Great Ring Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, December 1: 9:22 am, MVA with injury, I-84 West between Exits 11 and 10, Sandy Hook responded; 2:57 pm, hazardous materials, Winton Farm Road, Botsford responded; 3:17 pm, service call, Main Street, Hook & Ladder covered.

Friday, December 2: 1:59 pm, tree/wires down, Pecks Lane/South Main Street, Botsford responded; 3:27 pm, fire alarm, Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:27 pm, medical assist, Patricia Lane, Hawleyville responded; 3:27 pm, fire alarm, Hawleyville Road, fire alarm, 5:49 pm, service call, Elm Drive, Hook & Ladder covered.

Saturday, December 3: 12:06 pm, smoke/odor investigation, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:14 pm, medical assist, Juniper Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:12 pm, medical assist, Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 5:33 pm, medical assist, Rowledge Pond Road, Botsford responded; 5:52 pm, medical assist, Little Brook Lane, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 6:47 pm, tree/wires down, Key Rock Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:18 pm, medical assist, Sunnyview Terrace, Sandy Hook responded; 7:18 pm, tree/wires down, Alpine Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, December 4: 8:03 pm, MVA with injury, Washington Avenue/Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, December 5: 10:06 am, tree/wires down, Bennetts Bridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:10 pm, cover assignment, Aunt Patty’s Lane, Bethel, Dodgingtown responded.

Tuesday, December 6: 12:31 am, medical assist, Bennetts Bridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:30 pm, service call, Shepaug Road, Sandy Hook responded; 2:24 pm, tree/wires down, Schoolhouse Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:21 pm, fire alarm, Dylan Drive, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 3:59 pm, fire alarm, Taunton Lane, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 4:17 pm, fire alarm, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded.

Newtown Police, Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company responded to Riverside Road just east of the four-way intersection in Sandy Hook Center shortly after 8 pm Sunday, December 4, after Nicole Haferl, 31, of Danbury, operating a 2019 Nissan Rogue, struck a utility pole there. Newtown Police report Haferl had been traveling eastbound on Church Hill Road when she went through the intersection onto Riverside Road, lost control of the vehicle, and struck a utility pole along the eastbound shoulder of Riverside. Haferl was transported to Danbury Hospital for suspected minor injuries. The vehicle was towed due to disabling damage. No enforcement action was immediately taken. The incident remains under investigation. —Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue photo

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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.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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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.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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