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Fire Reports | January 17-24, 2019

Published: Jan 24, 2019 5:00 pm

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following fire calls and the responding fire companies:

Thursday, January 17: 5:21 pm, wires down, near 176 Mount Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded.

Friday, January 18: 7:01 am, ice rescue of deer fallen through the ice at Taunton Lake, NUSAR, Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, and Hook & Ladder responded; 1:02 pm, alarm, 320 South Main Street, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 1:39 pm, alarm, 41 West Street, Hook & Ladder and Dodgingtown responded; 6:29 pm, motor vehicle accident, I-84, Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, January 19: No calls listed.

Sunday, January 20: Overall on January 20, the five local volunteer fire companies received 79 calls for service across town, of which 70 calls involved reports of “wires down” due to the winter storm during the period from 6:39 am to 10:09 pm. Besides those calls for wires down, the other fire calls were: 2 am, alarm, 63 Castle Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:24 pm, illegal burn/outdoor fire, near 59 Cedar Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 8:08 am, brush fire, near 23 High Bridge Road, Botsford responded; 11:09 am, burning odor indoors, 13 Grays Plain Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:51 pm, investigation, 71 Head O’ Meadow Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:09 pm, alarm, 3 Wilderness West Road, Hawleyville responded; 6:55 pm, alarm, 5 Sutherland Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 8:46 pm, investigation, 13 Lyrical Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 10:45 pm, alarm, 35 Rock Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Monday, January 21: 9:17 am, wires down, intersection of Blakeslee Drive and Currituck Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 10:33 am, wires down, intersection of High Rock Road and Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:23 pm, motor vehicle accident, 67 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:33 pm, wires down, intersection of Sweet Meadow Road and Sugar Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:03 pm, motor vehicle accident, intersection of Wasserman Way and Oakview Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, January 22: 9:05 am, wires down, near 78 Taunton Lake Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:52 am, hazardous condition, Washington Avenue near Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:31 pm, investigation, 78 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:59 pm, wires down, near 7 The Old Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:01 pm, wires down, intersection of Taunton Lane and Mount Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 7:17 pm, pumping detail, 187 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 7:44 pm, odor of gas outdoors, 12 Dickinson Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Wednesday, January 23: 9:28 am, alarm, 228 South Main Street, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded.

Thursday, January 24: 3:58 am, alarm, 266 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 4:14 am, alarm, 600 Brookside Court, Hawleyville responded.

<p>A Volkswagen Passat station wagon and a Chevrolet commercial van were involved in a low-speed collision midafternoon on Monday, January 21, at Wheels gas station at 67 Church Hill Road. Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Newtown Hook & Ladder volunteer firefighters were dispatched to the scene. The Volkswagen's driver was transported to the hospital to be checked. Police said the accident is under investigation. Details on the incident were not immediately available. (Bee Photo, Gorosko)</p>

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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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