Fire Log: Stuck in PD Elevator; Sprinkler Pipe Bursts

Sprinkler System Pipe Bursts: 

The office building at 36 Grove St was evacuated around 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 5, after a sprinkler system pipe burst in the basement garage area. 

Person Stuck in Elevator at Police Headquarters: 

Firefighters helped free someone who got caught in the elevator at 174 South Ave around 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. The person was out less than 10 minutes later. 

Car Drives Into Woods: 

Around 12:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 5, firefighters responded to the scene of an accident on White Oak Shade Road near Putnam Road where a couple had driven off the road. Both airbags deployed. Firefighters stayed on the scene until the car was drug away by a wrecker. 

Firefighters were only on the scene of a Sunday night crash on Old Stamford Road for a few minutes because no extrication was necessary and no fluids needed to be cleaned up. EMS took care of two elderly patients involved in the incident. 

House Flooded: 

Firefighters shut off the power and water at a house on Smith Ridge Road Wednesday, Feb. 3, after receiving a call around 3:45 p.m. that the house was flooded. 

False Alarm—5: 

The Fire Department dealt with five false alarms in the past week, four of them on Tuesday; a fifth alarm Tuesday was set off by smoke from cooking. 

Sunday firefighters found nothing when they went to investigate a report of smoke in a building on Gerdes Road; a carbon monoxide alarm earlier that day also proved unfounded.