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Fire Reports | February 17-25, 2021

Published: Mar 01, 2021 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:

Wednesday, February 17: 1 pm, 6 Briarwood Lane, fire alarm–residential, Hawleyville Fire Department (HFD) and Newtown Hook & Ladder (NHL) responded.

Thursday, February 18: 1:34 am, Mile Hill Road, medical assist, NHL responded; 8:52 am, 139 Toddy Hill Road, medical assist, Botsford Fire Department (BFD) responded; 10:40 am, 101 Church Hill Road, service call, Sandy Hook Fire and Rescue (SHFD) covered; 3:30 pm, 84W btw. Exits 10 & 9, medical assist, NHL responded; 6:21 pm, 203 Sugar Street, fire alarm–residential, Dodgingtown Fire Department (DFD) responded; 6:48 pm, 11 Equestrian Ridge Road, fire alarm–residential, DFD responded; 10:28 pm, 7 Nighthawk Lane, fire alarm–commercial, SHFD responded.

Friday, February 19: 7:55 am, 39 Whitewood Road, fire alarm–residential, NHL and HFD responded; 12:34 pm, 6 Dock Drive, fire alarm–residential, SHFD and NHL responded; 1:28 pm, Cherry Street, medical assist, SHFD responded; 1:44 pm, Berkshire Road/Toddy Hill Road, motor vehicle accident (MVA), SHFD responded; 5:25 pm, 51 Flat Swamp Road, gas leak, DFD and NHL responded.

Saturday, February 20: 9:50 am, Church Hill Road/Exit 10, medical assist, SHFD responded; 6:56 pm, 39 Cooper Creek Circle, smoke in building–residential, BFD, SHFD, NHL, and HFD responded; 9 pm, Redding Fire Department, MVA, DFD responded.

Sunday, February 21: 7:52 am, Old Purdy Station Road, medical assist, DFD responded; 12:15 pm, 40 Little Brook Lane, vehicle fire, BFD and NHL responded.

Monday, February 22: 6:14 am, 84W btw. Exits 10 & 9, vehicle fire, NHL and SHFD responded; 10:45 am, 44 Old Hawleyville Road, CO alarm, HFD responded; 6:38 pm, 1 Edmond Road, fire alarm–commercial, NHL and SHFD responded; 6:54 pm, Main Street/Church Hill Road, service call, NHL and SHFD covered.

Tuesday, February 23: 5:35 am, Hawleyville Road/North Ridge Drive, MVA, HFD responded; 7:23 am, Patricia Lane, medical assist, HFD responded.

Wednesday, February 24: 9:36 am, 11 Church Hill Road, fire alarm–commercial, NHL and SHFD responded; 5 pm, Suzie Drive, medical assist, SHFD responded; 5:10 pm, 6 Still Hill Road, odor of burning/inside, SHFD responded; 7:23 pm, 127 Huntingtown Road, outside fire, BFD and NHL responded.

Thursday, February 25: 6:44 am, 51 Poverty Hollow Road, MVA, DFD responded.

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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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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.

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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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gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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