Tonight’s Car Fire
3:11am--#Bridgeport CT #Fairfield CT--Tonight's car fire is in Black Rock/Bridgeport on the Fairfield border at 3488 Fairfield Avenue. No word if there are any chestnuts roasting on this car fire.....
DOT truck ambulance crash
10:39pm--#Greenwich CT--#cttraffic--DOT truck requested to treat the Merritt Parkway exit ramp 31 after an ambulance and DOT slid and crashed into a couple of cars.
Norwalk crash
10:34pm--#Norwalk CT--Report of a rollover crash on West Rocks Road. All are out of the vehicle.
Several crashes on Merritt Parkway
10:02pm--#Fairfield CT #Westport CT #cttraffic--First responders very busy on the Merritt Parkway between no man's land and Westport with several accidents.
Restaurant robbed at gunpoint
9:20pm--#Bridgeport CT--The New China Restaurant at 1550 Wood Avenue was just robbed of $200 at gunpoint.
Bracelets for Christmas
6:01pm--#Trumbull CT--2 in custody for shoplifting at the Trumbull Mall and 2 the previous hour. I don't normally post shoplifters but wow, 4 in an hour at the same location!
Garbage chute fire
5:35pm--#Bridgeport CT--Report of a garbage chute fire on the 10th floor at 525 Palisade Avenue. Firefighters on the way.
Armed robbery
2:51pm--#Bridgeport CT--A man was just robbed at gunpoint in the 1800 block of Capitol Avenue.
Redding Youth Donates Teddy Bears to BFD to Help Reassure Sick Children
#Bridgeport, CT – Dec. 24, 2013 – Ten-year-old Vladimir Romano has a simple explanation for why he sells lemonade and buys teddy bears to give to fire departments for children. “I don’t want people to be more scared than I was,” he said in a visit to Bridgeport Fire Headquarters this morning. Vladimir was 3-years-old when he spiked a 105 degree temperature and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He was scared. He remembers a firefighter putting a stuffed bear on his chest and it made him feel better. A couple years later, he opened his first lemonade stand and his mother, Merian Schwindeman, asked what he wanted to do with the money. “He said, ‘I’m going to give it…
Caution on 8/25 family walking….
11:55am--#Bridgeport CT #cttraffic--Route 8/25 northbound split watch the family taking a walk on the shoulder of the highway.