Litchfield County towns revamping affordable housing plans
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Meeting on affordable housingTown of Warren
LITCHFIELD COUNTY There’s a shortage of affordable housing in towns throughout Litchfield County, and many of those towns are now under pressure to remedy this.
The towns are required to follow the 2017 state statute that states all municipalities must develop an affordable housing plan by July 2022. The Northwest Hills Council of Governments is currently assisting nine county towns Washington, Warren, Morris, Barkhamsted, Cornwall, Canaan (Falls Village), Harwinton, Norfolk, and Goshen in its 21-town area with developing an affordable housing plan. The long-term goal of these plans is to meet the housing needs of current and future residents and workers in those towns.
Roxbury firehouse receives $12K PPE donation following arson attack
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Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation Executive Director David Sarlitt, Ocean State Job Lot store team leader Rich Stomski, Roxbury Ambulance Association Chief Sarah Lauriat and Roxbury Volunteer Fire Chief Todd Wheeler.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Boxes of personal protective equipment the Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation delivered to the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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ROXBURY Nearly $12,000 worth of personal protective equipment has been donated to the Roxbury Fire Department after its stockpile was destroyed last week during an intentionally set fire at the facility.
One dead after Washington barn fire
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WASHINGTON One person is dead after a fire Saturday night destroyed a converted barn, officials said.
Washington Fire Department Thomas Osbourne told Hearst Connecticut Media that the first call came in at 6:14 p.m. Three minutes later Osbourne arrived at 7 Blackville Road and he, along with Washington’s fire chief, witnessed a fire “burning hot” and quick.
Washington Fire Department was able to halt the fire from spreading past the barn with help from the Bantam and Northville fire departments. Units were on the scene until 10:21 p.m., the fire marshal said.
The building was a “converted barn” used as a living space, according to Osbourne.
Police: EMT suspended before arsons at CT EMS facilities
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Hunters Ambulance & Transportation at 309 Boston Post Road in Old Saybrook on Sunday.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
Police say hours before setting fires at emergency services facilities in Meriden, Old Saybrook and Roxbury, a Torrington EMT got into a fight with a fellow Hunter’s Ambulance employee after he was placed on administrative leave in a disciplinary hearing.
The suspect, identified by police as 37-year-old Richard White, was taken into custody late Saturday in Pennsylvania, after authorities say he set four fires that damaged emergency services facilities and a home in Connecticut.