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Fire Reports | July 8-14, 2026

Published: Jul 20, 2026 8:00 am

Wednesday, July 8: 1:46 am, service call, 81 Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 5:13 am, structure fire, 9 Horseshoe Ridge Road, all companies responded; 5:13 am, service call, 81 Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 5:12 pm, service call, 15 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Thursday, July 9: 5:16 am, fire alarm, 12 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:37 pm, officer call, 12 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:39 pm, officer call, 55 Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown responded; 12:42 pm, officer call, 34 Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 12:43 pm, officer call, 18 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 12:46 pm, officer call, 315 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 12:47 pm, water rescue, 28 Riverside Road, NUSAR, Hook & Ladder, and Sandy Hook responded; 1:56 pm, tree/wires down, 92 Taunton Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 5:12 pm, service call, 15 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 6:43 pm, fire alarm, 173 Hattertown Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:36 pm, fire alarm, 15 Founders Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 10:41 pm, service call, 92 Pocono Road, Brookfield, Hook & Ladder and Hawleyville responded; 10:41 pm, service call, 506 Candlewood Lake Road, Brookfield, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded.

Friday, July 10: 10:14 am, tree/wires down, 48 Pond Brook Road, Hawleyville responded; 7:34 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 120 Walnut Tee Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9:01 pm, tree/wires down, 69 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:32 pm, tree/wires down, Head of Meadow and Shepard Hill Roads, Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, July 11: 11:15 am, CO alarm, 4 Meadow Brook Road, Botsford responded; 4:24 pm, tree/wires down, Capitol and Hilldale Drives, Sandy Hook responded; 7:21 pm, gas leak, 120 Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 10:08 pm, CO alarm, 42 Taunton Lake Drive, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, July 12: 3:34 am, medical assist, Brookside Court, Hawleyville responded; 11:54 am, motor vehicle accident (MVA), 6 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 1:05 pm, MVA, 51 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 2:11 pm, medical assist, Rose Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 8:13 pm, MVA, 76 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, July 13: 1:40 pm, tree/wires down, 50 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 1:59 pm, gas leak, 18 Georges Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Hawleyville responded; 3:39 pm, cover assignment, 59 Stony Hill Road, Brookfield, Dodgingtown and Hawleyville responded; 4:11 pm, cover assignment, 39 Ironworks Hill Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 4:39 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 31 Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:32 pm, service call, 55 Sugar Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:12 pm, service call, Main Street and Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, July 14: 3:47 pm, fire alarm, 32 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 5:41 pm, fire alarm, 7 Old Castle Drive, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 10:52 pm, medical assist, Sycamore Drive, Botsford responded.

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Bruce, welcome to the conversation. Your recent statement after the storm — admitting that you should have communicated “faster, more completely, and more personally” — was fine as far as it went. But this is not just about one storm. It is about a pattern. You ran on openness, responsiveness, and transparency, even saying that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government.” The problem is that Newtown residents have been dealing with exactly that silence from you since you were elected. Newtown’s Emergency Management page says the town, together with the Office of the First Selectman, provides “critical public information and warning” during emergencies. The town also rolled out CodeRED cellphone registration on March 24, 2022 so residents could receive emergency information directly. So where were you when police were searching for missing 23-year-old Kateri Doty in January? Where were you during the brush fires near the Newtown town line in April? Where were you on April 22, when state police and Newtown police were searching for two people who fled an I-84 crash and a canine search moved into the Church Hill Road area? Residents should not be hearing about a missing person, wildfire conditions, or police tracking dogs moving through backyards from Facebook, neighbors, or kids in town. They should be hearing from their town government. This is not really about whether you personally press the CodeRED button. Or how many task forces you have created. It is about leadership. You are the First Selectman. You are responsible for making sure the town communicates clearly, quickly, and visibly when public safety is involved. So yes, it is nice that you have finally acknowledged the problem. But the public did not need this storm to figure it out. We have been saying it for a long time. Bruce, you were missing when the town needed to hear from you. The question now is whether this storm finally woke you up, or whether this is just another late apology followed by more silence.

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The topic may be the same but the narratives every other week differ and I appreciate the installments. Rebuttals on factual content rather than focusing on form would improve the discourse.

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Who would think that we would start losing count? Maybe not so much a typo as a copy-and-paste error, easy to understand after this much repetition.

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Onwards And Upwards — NHS Class Of 2026 Graduates

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