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Fire Reports | September 2-8, 2026

Published: Sep 14, 2026 8:00 am

Wednesday, September 2: 9:34 am, fire alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 9:37 am, medical assist, Baldwin Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:30 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 2 Buttonshop Road, Botsford responded; 10:20 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA), I-84 West Exits 13 & 11, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, September 3: 10:53 pm, MVA, 15 New Lebbon Road, Botsford responded.

Friday, September 4: 6:45 am, fire alarm, 800 Brookside Court, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 10:39 am, medical assist, I-84 East, Hawleyville responded; 2:14 pm, medical assist, Walker Hill Road, Botsford responded; 5:44 pm, fire alarm, 47 Horseshoe Ridge Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 5:56 pm, service call, 127 Louis Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:12 pm, fire alarm, 146 South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Saturday, September 5: 3:49 am, smoke/odor investigation, 14 Hundred Acres Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:46 am, medical assist, St Georges Place, Sandy Hook responded; 8:59 am, tree/wires down, Hanover and Echo Valley Roads, Hook & Ladder responded; 1:39 pm, fire alarm, 27 Housatonic Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 5:01 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 4 Forest Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 5:45 pm, outside fire, Hawleyville and Mt Pleasant Roads, Hawleyville responded.

Sunday, September 6: 2:59 am, fire alarm, 146 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 12:28 pm, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 1:25 pm, tree/wires down, 62 Schoolhouse Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 2:31 pm, MVA, I-84 West Exits 13 & 11, Sandy Hook responded; 3:01 pm, medical assist, Ox Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 7:25 pm, outside fire, Walnut Tree Hill and Shepaug Roads, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, September 7: 7:53 am, medical assist, Butterfield Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:18 pm, service call, Butterfield Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:27 pm, fire alarm, 57 Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:13 pm, illegal burn, 98 Albert Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 7:56 pm, medical assist, Walnut Tree Hill and Shepaug Roads, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, September 8: 2:07 pm, CO alarm, 34 Grand Place, Hook & Ladder responded; 8:18 pm, MVA, Toddy Hill and Berkshire Roads, Sandy Hook responded.

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Dear Alyssa, Kelela, and Brandon, We send our sincere sympathy to you and your family. We will also keep you in our prayers asking our Lord to grant you comfort and peace. With love, Vince and Sandy Venitelli

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Bruce, your advice that voters should “read, listen, and engage” would be much more persuasive if you practiced it yourself. You campaigned on openness and responsiveness. You declared that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government” and promised to answer constituent inquiries within two days. Yet you never answered my straightforward public question about Main Street demonstrations, traffic disruption, pedestrian safety, and the effects on local businesses. After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass. That is not accessible, townwide engagement. Previous first selectmen held open coffee hours and walk-and-talk sessions that any resident could attend. Then came the failed storm communications, your apology, and another promise to communicate better—followed shortly afterward by more silence while multiple police agencies conducted a significant search near Saw Mill Road. You now tell voters to examine what candidates say and “how they say it.” I would suggest going one step further: compare what politicians promise while seeking office with what they actually do after winning. Your record presents a stark contrast. You told voters exactly what they wanted to hear to get the job, then failed to live by those promises. Whether that is dishonesty or simply indifference, it is the same familiar, two-faced politics you once claimed you would replace.

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Dear Colleen, Molly, and Reed, Our sincere condolences to all of you. Sandy & Vince Venitelli

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