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Fire Reports | March 1-8, 2022

Published: Mar 14, 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, March 2: 10:31 am, medical assist, Joan Drive, Botsford responded; 11:47 am, medical assist, Joan Drive, Botsford responded; 12:50 pm, medical assist, Butternut Ridge/Butterfield Road, Hawleyville responded; 2:07 pm, smoke/odor investigation, Trades Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:25 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Berkshire Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, March 3: 8:24 am, tree/wires down, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:53 am, CO alarm, Marlin Road, Botsford responded; 5:32 pm, CO alarm, Elana Lane, Sandy Hook responded.

Friday, March 4: 11:33 am, service call, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 5:16 pm, fire alarm, Boulevard, Hook & Ladder, Hawleyville, and Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, March 5: 1:17 am, MVA with injury, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 10:35 am, vehicle fire, Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:43 pm, medical assist, Castle Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, March 6: 3:35 pm, MVA with injury, Mt Pleasant, Hawleyville responded; 6:38 pm, fire alarm, Narragansett Trail, Sandy Hook responded; 8:40 pm, fire alarm, Daniels Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, March 7: 11:58 am, outside fire, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:33 pm, tree/wires down, Bogs Hill/Deep Brook, Hook & Ladder responded; 10:52 pm, tree/wires down, Cold Spring Road/Huntingtown Road, Botsford responded.

Tuesday, March 8: 5:08 am, tree/wires down, Bears Hill/Pine Tree Hill, Botsford responded; 6:36 am, tree/wires down, Great Ring Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9:20 am, tree/wires down, Sunset Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:57 am, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 10:44 pm, service call, Orchard Hill Road, Botsford covered.

Members of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company and Newtown Hook & Ladder Volunteer Fire Company are joined by Mike McCarthy and employees of Applied Rescue Technique on the shoreline of Lake Zoar on Sunday, February 27. The local firefighters began the morning doing a quick class at Hook & Ladder’s firehouse, before heading to the ice-covered waters of the local lake, where they continued ice rescue training. McCarthy, who is also a member of Hook & Ladder, is also the owner of the Sandy Hook-based technical rescue training company that led the combined training session for the two local fire companies. —Karin Halstead/Sandy Hook VFR photo

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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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