Fires, Car Crashes, Idiot Parking

While most of us, hopefully, were snuggled in our warm homes fully embracing the end of the work week, Valley firefighters, EMS and police were responding to calls like gangbusters Friday night and Saturday morning.

The calls started at 5 p.m. Friday, when Ansonia firefighters were sent to a fire in the city’s old industrial complex between RIverside Drive, Liberty and Main Street.

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Later Friday night — as a light snow developed and the temperature dipped into single digits — some of the following calls came in:

  • Derby, 10th Street: Report of a gas leak inside a residence. Firefighters handled it quickly, based on radio transmissions.
  • Oxford, Governor’s Hill Road: Report of a car crash.
  • Derby, David Humphreys Road: Chimney fire kept firefighters on scene for at least an hour.

Then, Saturday morning:

  • Oxford, in the area of 671 Oxford Road: Firefighters responded to a report of a barn fire at about 6 5:30 a.m. Barn was engulfed in flames when the first units arrived at the scene, according to a status update on Facebook by Oxford Fire-Rescue. They were spraying water on hay and looking for hot spots at 7 a.m. Firefighters from surrounding towns responded as well. Firefighters were wrapping up the scene as of 8 a.m.
  • Seymour, 7:05 a.m.: A VEMS medic spotted a vehicle parked on the ice on Fountain Lake. Police, EMS, firefighters responded. No one was in the vehicle, which looked like it had been purposely abandoned on the ice. Apparently it was a stolen vehicle.

Happy weekend!

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