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Fire Reports | January 4-10, 2023

Published: Jan 16, 2023 06:00 AM

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:

Wednesday, January 4: 9:21 am, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Berkshire Road/Zoar Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:36 pm, fire alarm, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville, Hook & Ladder, and Sandy Hook responded; 5:45 pm, CO alarm, Bridge End Farm, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, January 5: 7:34 pm, MVA with injury, I-84 East on Exit 10 off-ramp, Hawleyville responded; 8:29 pm, MVA with injury, Scudder Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Friday, January 6: 9:57 am, tree/wires down, Hattertown Road/Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown responded; 1:15 pm, service call, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 2:07 pm, fire alarm, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 2:20 pm, structure fire, Martin Street, Hook & Ladder, Botsford, Dodgingtown, Hawleyville, and Sandy Hook responded; 6:41 pm, CO alarm, Sugar Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Saturday, January 7: 9:03 am, fire alarm, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:27 am, fire alarm, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 6:02 pm, fire alarm, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, January 8: 8:04 am, MVA with injury, Berkshire Road/Bennetts Bridge Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, January 9: 12:59 am, medical assist, Pole Bridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 10:35 am, fire alarm, Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 2:04 pm, tree/wires down, Valley View/Ridge Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Tuesday, January 10: 1:53 pm, medical assist, Hi Barlow Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:57 pm, fire alarm, Eden Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded.

A head-on crash at 1:39 pm December 29 in the area of 44 Glen Road resulted in the arrest of one of the operators involved, and drew emergency response from Newtown Police Department, Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue. According to an NPD release, Constance L. Defilippo, 68, of Southbury was operating her vehicle northbound when she traveled over the double yellow line and struck a southbound vehicle. Following an investigation, Defilippo was charged with DWI, failure to carry an insurance card, failure to drive in the proper lane, and making a restricted turn. She was subsequently processed at Newtown Police headquarters and was released after arranging a bond pending a January 10 court appearance. —Bee Photo, Voket

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

Beth sorry for your loss Scott always talked about how much you loved your mom ❤️ Prayers for you and your family Gauvin Family

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Fire Reports | January 4-10, 2023

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