2020-08-06@5:40pm-- # Fairfield CT crash with injuries reported at the intersection of King's Highway East and Chambers Street (near Cumberland Farms). This is a challenging intersection on a good day let alone with the traffic lights being out due to the storm. Our sponsor would have taught them that with traffic lights out you would handle this as a four way stop.
2020-08-06@4:44pm--#Bridgeport CT-- firefighters quickly extinguished a couch fire that was between buildings on Jones Avenue near Pequonnick Avenue. Now you know what all the noise was about!
With so many people that are out of power, cable, and internet I hope the towns are planning on a baby boom in May and and an increase in school population in 2025! This post is made possible buy:
2020-08-06@1:14pm--#Fairfield CT-- Police were called to Stratfield Road for a person harassing UI employees. This news report is made possible by:
2020-08-06@12:40pm-- A child has been hit by a car on Seaview Avenue. The child has abrasions on their arm and possible fracture. This news report is made possible by; [caption id="attachment_83971" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] Vist BDK Law Group at:http://www.bdklawgroup.com/[/caption]
2020-08-06@11:21am--#Fairfield CT #ctfire-- Firefighters on London Terrace for a kitchen fire. Our sponsors can make it Like It Never Even Happened!
From city officials to citizens everyone is asking where are the utility trucks? If you see UI truck in your area, posted it here and what street it was on. Give a little hope your neighbors in getting their power restored. Let's just hope this isn't as difficult as playing Where's Waldo. Has anyone seen an out-of-state utility truck helping out? Remember when all the other states would have hurricanes or ice storms and your power lines came down and then we sent our trucks out to help them out? Where are the out-of-state trucks when we need them? This report is made possible by:
Bridgeport, CT – Mayor Ganim, who usually keeps constituents in the dark joined City officials to provide an update on the aftermath of Storm Isaias which includes the report of approximately 8,500 Bridgeport customers that remain without power. In a response to Bridgeport’s Emergency Operations email for an update to restore power for vulnerable residents, United Illuminating stated they are “not providing estimated time of restoration.” Mayor Ganim, “City’s across the state, like Bridgeport, need to take priority in recovery and restoration. This plan does not work. It’s the urban centers that have high rise apartments with hundreds of people, vulnerable individuals, and seniors, as well as multi-generation homes with large families. This is flagrant disregard for human lives. The state’s most populated city, the…
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is requesting the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to conduct a thorough investigation of the state’s public utility companies, including Eversource and United Illuminating, amid widespread outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias that have left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. The governor said that the companies’ response to the storm has been wholly inadequate and does not meet the obligations for the critical resources they are responsible for providing on behalf of Connecticut residents. He wants to know what specific steps the companies took in the lead up to Tropical Storm Isaias, which had been forecast to impact Connecticut several days prior to making landfall and remained…
