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Fire Reports | September 10-17, 2020

Published: Sep 21, 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, September 10: 9:39 am, alarm commercial, Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 12:43 pm, wires down, Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:19 pm, mutual aid, Grays Bridge/Old Grays Bridge, Brookfield, Hawleyville responded; 5:47 pm, structure fire, South Main Street, Botsford, Hawleyville, Sandy Hook, and Hook & Ladder responded; 11:14 pm, hazardous condition, South Main Street/Bear Hills Road, Botsford responded.

Friday, September 11: 3:39 am, medical assist, Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:05 am, public service, Main Street/Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 1:18 pm, alarm commercial, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 6:35 pm, public service, flagpole, Hook & Ladder covered; 10:37 pm, alarm residential, Horseshoe Ridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:28 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with extrication, I-84 West between Exits 9-8, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, September 12: 3:47 pm, alarm residential, Jeremiah Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, September 13: 11:04 am, public service, Old Bridge Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 11:29 am, medical assist, Charlies Circle, Sandy Hook responded; 11:52 am, public service, Lake Zoar, NUSAR covered.

Monday, September 14: 9:40 am, medical assist, I-84 West between Exits 11-10, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:26 pm, alarm residential, Eden Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 6:37 pm, alarm residential, Dylan Drive, Hawleyville responded.

Tuesday, September 15: 9:02 am, odor of burning inside, Rowledge Pond Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 2:08 pm, alarm residential, Horseshoe Ridge Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 7:01 pm, alarm residential, Sweet Meadow Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Wednesday, September 16: 7:13 pm, alarm residential, Sweet Meadow Road, Dodgingtown responded; 10:02 pm, odor of gas inside, Boggs Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Firefighters from all five of Newtown’s volunteer companies were dispatched to Club 24, within Plaza South at 266 Main Street South, shortly before 6 pm Thursday, September 10, when a fire was reported in the club’s sauna. Botsford Fire Chief Andrew White had command of the scene. White reported smoke inside the building upon his arrival. Once the small fire was located, firefighters were able to quickly extinguish it before it could spread. No injuries were reported. Firefighters departed the scene around 7:20 pm. The fire caused an early end to a special Board of Fire Commissioners meeting that evening. Without a quorum, the group could not take its planned vote on changes to its Capital Improvement Plan. —photo courtesy Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management

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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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