The dispatchers at Town Hall South report the following fire calls during the past week:

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Mar 10, 2006 12:00 am

Thursday, March 2: 8:57 am, brush fire, New Lebbon Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 11:08 am, motor vehicle accident, 25 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:06 pm, hazardous condition, South Main Street, Botsford responded; 12:30 pm, hazardous condition, Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 1:03 pm, motor vehicle accident, Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3 pm, motor vehicle accident, 81 Currituck Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:08 pm, car fire, 96 Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:19 pm, motor vehicle accident, 41 Great Ring Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, March 4: 11:04 am, alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:51 am, motor vehicle accident, Toddy Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12 pm, furnace malfunction, 17 Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook, Hawleyville, and Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, March 5: 12:25 pm, investigation, Meadowbrook Road, Botsford responded; 3:56 pm, smoke from building, 30 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook, Hawleyville, and Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, March 6: 9:01 am, alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 10:05 am, medical call, 139 Toddy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 11:50 am, alarm, 28-A Riverside Road, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:13 pm, burning odor, 108 Taunton Hill Road, Hawleyville, Dodgingtown, and Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, March 8: 5:42 pm, illegal burn, near intersection of Meadow Brook Road and Lazybrook Road, Botsford responded.

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