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Fire Reports | June 18-25, 2020

Published: Jun 29, 2020 7:30 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, June 18: 12:25 pm, public service, Quail Hollow Lane, Sandy Hook covered; 12:31 pm, illegal burn/outside fire, Surrey Trail, Botsford responded; 3:14 pm, odor of gas inside, Rowledge Pond Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 5:19 pm, investigation, Appleblossom Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:31 pm, residential alarm, Echo Valley Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:01 pm, odor of gas inside, Dylan Drive, Hawleyville responded;

Friday, June 19: 4:10 pm, brush fire, I-84 West between Exits 9-8, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 4:28 pm, CO detector, Swamp Road, Botsford responded; 5:58 pm, odor of gas inside, Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook responded; 5:59 pm, commercial alarm, Trades Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:10 pm, CO detector, Turkey Roost Road, Botsford responded;

Saturday, June 20: 9:33 am, public service, Brookfield, Sandy Hook covered; 6:13 pm, medical assist, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded;

Sunday, June 21: 10:43 am, illegal burn/outside fire, Huntingtown Road, Botsford responded; 8:43 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded;

Monday, June 22: 10:08 am, car fire (vehicle malfunction), I-84 West between Exits 13-11, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:50 pm, public service, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 8:47 pm, illegal burn/outside fire, Sunny View Terrace, Sandy Hook responded;

Tuesday, June 23: 9:57 am, residential alarm, Grand Place, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 12:57 pm, brush fires, I-84 West between Exits 11-9, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 7:28 pm, residential alarm, Saddle Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded; 12:51 pm, medical assist, Castle Lane, Botsford responded; 1:15 pm, investigation, 180 Julia Court, Sandy Hook responded; 11:01 pm, medical assist, Brookside Court, Hook & Ladder responded;

Thursday, June 25: 12:17 am, MVA with injury, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Two Connecticut Department of Transportation employees can be seen near a brush fire in the median of I-84, just west of the Exit 10 on ramp, June 23, around 1 pm. Connecticut State Troopers and trucks from Newtown Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue, both carrying crews, responded to three small brush fires, including this one, Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters were initially dispatched to the area of the Exit 11 westbound on ramp, but were quickly alerted by dispatch of additional fires. A third fire, also along I-84 West, was located just prior to the Hanover Road overpass. All three were quickly extinguished. —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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