Crime & Safety

Fire Log: Basement Water, Burnt Food

Reports of vehicle and structure fires proved unfounded.

Sump Pump Energized:

Firefighters helped get a generator working and kick the sump pump back on  at a house on Braeburn Drive where the power had gone out and three inches of water had cropped up in the basement Tuesday, March 30.

Something Went Boom:

A caller reported a transformer explosion on Smith Ridge Road shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27. Firefighters on the scene told headquarters it looked instead like a light had fallen from a utility pole. Since there was no hazard, firefighters notified Connecticut Light & Power and headed back to the firehouse.

Burnt Food Activates Alarms:

Firefighters got a call from a house on Norholt Drive Sunday, March 28, and another on Davenport Ridge Tuesday, March 30, where smoke from faulty cooking had set off a detector.

False Alarms Answered—6:

New Canaan Fire Company No. 1 responded to half a dozen calls in the past week that were later labeled false alarms.

Firefighters rushed to the Park Mead condos at 3:47 p.m. Monday, March 29, after a caller said she'd seen what looked like smoke coming out of a window belonging to one of the units. It turned out to be steam from a dryer expelling from a vent near the roof line. 

A report of a vehicle fire on Marvin Ridge Road around 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 2, also proved unfounded.

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