Multiple first responder angencies were dispatched at 10:30 Monday, November 24, to Queen Street Shopping Center for a reported car into building with possible entrapment.
2025 Newtown Fill the Fire Truck
Newtown’s five fire companies came together for the 2025 Fill The Fire Truck for FAITH Food Pantry, collecting donations just ahead of Thanksgiving. Thanks to everyone who supported this important cause and helped make the 23rd annual event a success. Together, the community donated 63 boxes of food, 64 turkeys, and $1,590 in cash and gift cards.
First responders were dispatched to the area of 1 Riverside Road at 02:06 Sunday, November 23, for a reported one-vehicle rollover with entrapment.
Members of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue spent part of the morning of Sunday, November 9 doing driver recertification. Stations and courses were set up at multiple locations withing our district, where drivers were tested on different pieces of apparatus.
Pump operations were also tested during the annual training.
First Engineer Tim Whelan monitors while a driver maneuvers Tanker 449 through a cones course during driver recertification on November 9.
Drafting and pumping water was also part of the morning’s training.
Deputy Chief Ryan Clark and Firefighter Matt Dobson set up pumping between Engine 441 and Brush 445.
Deputy Chief Ryan Clark (left) and Firefighter Matt Dobson (right) work with Firefighter Kevin Keohan at Engine 441’s pump panel.
Firefighter Scott Allen also does pumping detail on Engine 441.