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Fire Reports | August 11-17, 2021

Published: Aug 23, 2021 06:00 AM

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

Wednesday, August 11: 4:42 pm, medical assist, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Thursday, August 12: 6:07 am, tree/wires down, Ox Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:01 am, service call, Elizabeth Circle, Sandy Hook responded; 7:01 am, medical assist, Cross Brook Road, Sandy Hook responded; 1:32 pm, gasoline spill, Silver City Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:33 pm, CO no symptoms, Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook responded; 4:00 pm, service call, Main Street/Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 6:02 pm, service call, Elizabeth Circle, Sandy Hook covered; 7:09 pm, tree/wires down, Ox Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Friday, August 13: 8:39 am, CO no symptoms, Taunton Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 1:03 pm, medical assist, Mount Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 7:28 pm, service call, Meadowbrook Road, Botsford covered; 7:41 pm, hazardous materials, Old Bridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:29 pm, vehicle fire, Wasserman Way, Sandy Hook responded; 11:51 pm, service call, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, August 14: 7:23 am, brush fire, Jo Mar Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 8:33 am, tree/wires down, Lakeview Terrace Extension, Sandy Hook responded; 11:56 am, medical assist, Winter Ridge Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:10 pm, water rescue, Taunton Lake Road, Hook & Ladder, NUSAR, Sandy Hook, and Hawleyville responded; 8:41 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:13 pm, fire alarm–residential, Boulder Creek Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Sunday, August 15: 1:43 am, fire alarm–commercial, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 10:00 am, fire alarm–commercial, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 7:09 pm, fire alarm–residential, Pinnacle Drive Dodgingtown responded; 7:24 pm, MVA with injury, Berkshire Road/Tanglewood Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 9:28 pm, medical assist, Spring Trail, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, August 16: 5:07 pm, MVA with injury, Taunton Lane, Hawleyville responded; 9:08 pm, MVA with injury, I-84 West between Exits 11-10, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, August 17: 7:59 pm, MVA with injury, I-84 West near Exit 9 on ramp, Hawleyville responded.

Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company Chief Donald DiGioia walks the scene of a one-vehicle crash Monday, August 16. According to Newtown police, Vaughn C. Keeney, 17, of Newtown, was operating a 2011 Honda CR-V LX (shown at left) southbound on Taunton Lane, around 4:50 pm, when Keeney lost control of the vehicle. While negotiating a left hand curve in the roadway, the CR-V entered the southbound shoulder and struck a mailbox in front of 10 Taunton Lane. The car continued on the southbound shoulder and struck a Frontier utility pole before stopping. Keeney told police she was rerouting her GPS when her vehicle left the roadway. Hawleyville firefighters and a Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps crew also responded to the crash. Keeney was transported to a hospital for suspected minor injury. She was issued an infraction for making a restricted turn. The Honda was towed from the scene due to disabling damage. —Bee Photo, Hicks

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Mark M. Passero, Sr

They clearly didn't get the message ! CUT THE BUDGET by 20% , not raise it ! Newtown spends $2,500,000.00 every week now ! It will be $2.6m if you approve it ! Who are these people not paying attention to the cost of living? Throwing money at the school administration will not make your kids any smarter ! We are at $22K per kid per year, that is insane ! CUT THE BUDGET ! Go show up and VOTE, because 1200 people who voted yes will show up again, and it's the 1200 people who decide your cost of living for years to come. 51% voters turnout should be mandated to approve the budget, not pathetic 15% of voters. Stop these nonsensical referendums and send everyone a card in the mail so we have a true outcome what people actually want.

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The town cuts down the Sandy Hook Christmas tree and now trashes this bridge. What next?

Sandy Hook Pedestrian Bridge Removed

All due respect, the headline to this article is misleading. The budget presented was a proposed budget that did not pass public referendum. There are no cuts to anything, rather a reduction in the Board of Education original asking dollars. As matter of fact, the current recommendation from the LC is an increase of 2.3M more than the previous budget from 2023/24.

Some background on the Bus comment Mr Knapp made on not following policy. From ther Bee may 2023. Following a Request for Proposal (RFP), the school board learned at its March 15 meeting that only one bid came back for the school district’s transportation contract. The current contract with All-Star Transportation, which oversees the majority of bus routes for the district, is set to end at the end of this school year. At the May 3 meeting, district Director of Business & Finance Tanja Vadas said — reacting to Public Participation speaker Ryan Knapp who, among other things concerning the transportation contract, questioned the school district’s RFP process — she stands by the district’s RFP process “but other companies just didn’t bid.”

Concerns With Adherence To School District Policies

Additionally, they also anticipate over a $300,000 surplus for this fiscal year.

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