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Fire Reports | November 26-December 2, 2025

Published: Dec 08, 2025 8:00 am

Wednesday, November 26: 3:53 am, fire alarm, 21 Ethan Allen Road, Botsford responded; 5:43 am, fire alarm, 274 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 11:58 am, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 8:21 pm, service call, 12 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, November 27: 2:09 am, fire alarm, 99 Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 9:38 am, fire alarm, 37 Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 12:31 pm, vehicle fire, 44 Grand Place, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 3:48 pm, medical assist, Oak Ridge Drive, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded.

Friday, November 28: 3:48 pm, tree/wires down, Dayton Street and Eagle Rock Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:20 pm, brush fire, 17 Sand Hill Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 7:11 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 10 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, November 29: 3:19 pm, fire alarm, 7 Taunton Ridge Road, Hawleyville responded; 4:45 pm, fire alarm, 39 Currituck Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, December 1: 11:14 pm, vehicle fire, I-84 West Exits 11 & 10, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, December 2: 8:28 am, fire alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 4:23 am, chimney fire, 3 Shamrock Lane, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:19 am, smoke/odor investigation, 3 Shamrock Lane, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded.

Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue firefighters clear debris off Riverside Road after the 2018 Toyota Corolla in the foreground crashed early Sunday, November 23. Sandy Hook VFR, Newtown Hook & Ladder, Newtown Police, Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and a paramedic were all dispatched around 2 am to the area of 1 Riverside Road for the reported one-vehicle rollover with entrapment. Newtown PD officers were first to arrive on scene and reported the driver was out of the vehicle. Hook & Ladder was canceled at that time. Newtown Police report Tariq L. Turner, 27, of Hartford, was operating the Toyota eastbound on Church Hill Road, then continued east onto Riverside. The vehicle went off the road’s southern shoulder and collided with and destroyed a lamp post, clipped the guy line of a utility pole, and clipped a stone wall before returning to the roadway, eventually ending up on its roof. Turner was transported to a hospital for suspected minor injuries. Riverside was closed between Sandy Hook Center and Apex Glass for approximately one hour, while firefighters and police officers continued to work the scene. Modz Towing and Eversource also responded to the crash. The case remains under investigation and enforcement action is pending, according to the police report. —Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue photo

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Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position. If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe. Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.

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To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion. The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public. This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.

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Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.

The Newtown Bee reported what was said at a Newtown Interfaith Council meeting. Whether Mr McGillicuddy agrees with what was said or not, reporting what occurs at a public meeting is not "propaganda." Presenting what was said without editorializing is encouraging the reader to decide what to believe or not believe, and is standard for reporting at a community newspaper like The Newtown Bee.

"Abducted by ICE". You mean, when law enforcement enforces the law? This is propaganda passed off as a news article.

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