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Fire Reports | May 17-May 23, 2023

Published: May 29, 2023 07:00 AM

Wednesday, May 17: 9:14 am, medical assistance, Brookside Court, Hawleyville responded; 3:25 pm, medical assistance, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:50 pm, motor vehicle accident, 7 Cold Spring Road, Botsford responded; 4:09 pm, brush fire, South Main Street, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; and 4:59 pm, tree/wires down, High Rock/Grays Plain Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, May 18: 9:11 am, motor vehicle accident, 301 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 3:26 pm, medical assistance, Copper Creek, Botsford responded; 7:42 am, motor vehicle accident, Interstate 84 east between exits 10 and 11, Sandy Hook responded; 8:55 pm, fire alarm, 21 Dock Drive, Sandy Hook responded; and 9:34 pm, medical assistance, Horseshoe Ridge Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Friday, May 19: 6:11 am, medical assistance, Hitfield Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:07 pm, fire alarm, 38 Taunton Hill Road, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 10:56 pm, medical assistance, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, May 20: 7:54 am, service call, 83 Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 7:59 am, service call, Main Street/Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 1:26 pm, medical assistance, Papoose Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:25 pm, motor vehicle accident, Flat Swamp/Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown responded; and 8:28 pm, wires burning/arcing, 192 Huntingtown Road, Botsford responded.

Sunday, May 21: 1:13 am, medical assistance, Castle Meadow Road, Botsford responded; 2:11 pm, fire alarm, 11 Bresson Farm Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:29 pm, smoke/odor investigation, Walnut Tree/Glen Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:47 pm, motor vehicle accident, Interstate 84 east between exits 9 and 10, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; and 7:21 pm, vehicle fire, Interstate 84 west between exits 10 and 9, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, May 22: 7:34 am, tree/wires down, 53 Taunton Lake Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 8:14 am, medical assistance, Patriot Ridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 10:05 am, motor vehicle accident, Berkshire Road/High Rock Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:55 am, smoke/odor investigation, 11 Buttonshop Road, Botsford responded; 1:07 pm, fire alarm, 22 Still Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Botsford responded; 4:48 pm, vehicle fire, Interstate 84 west between exits 10 & 9, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 6 pm, fire alarm, 29 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:29 pm, medical assistance, Dinglebrook Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; and 7:50 pm, fire alarm, 29 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Tuesday, May 23: 1:16 am, fire alarm, 29 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 10:06 am, tree/wires down, Dinglebrook Lane/Driftway Drive, Hook & Ladder responded; 10:15 am, medical assistance, Swamp Road, Botsford responded; 4:57 pm, vehicle fire, 4 Susan Lane, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:43 pm, tree/wires down, Oakview Road/Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:13 pm, CO alarm, 35 Parmalee Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; and 9:16 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 28 Marlin Road, Botsford responded.

Firefighters made a very quick stop of a truck fire last weekend, after being dispatched to I-84 West between Exits 10 and 9. Newtown Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue firefighters were dispatched at 7:21 pm for the fire, which had fully engulfed the cab of the tractor-trailer before firefighters arrived. Hook & Ladder firefighters knocked the fire down quickly, however, stopped it before it breached the trailer. Sandy Hook provided additional water at the scene. The fire briefly closed the interstate. The truck driver was able to safely exit the truck without injury. DEEP was contacted due to fuel leaking, and the truck was towed by Modzelewski’s Towing & Salvage. —Newtown Hook & Ladder Co #1 photo

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Greetings From Newtown’s New Postmaster

A lovely tribute-Matt, we are thinking of you, Tanya, and entire Medve family at this time-Jane & Keith & Family 💙

Susan Medve

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!

Referendum Results: Split Decision

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.

Vote Yes On April 23

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).

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