Month: January 2012

Around 6:40pm firefighters were called to 59 Johnson Street for a structure fire. Although an abandoned house, firefighter were told that someone ran back in to the second floor but after primary and secondary search turn up nothing. X Assistant Fire Chief Ivan Fossesigurani told us firefighters faced challenges with the fire containing itself in walls and behind the cedar shingles under the siding on the house. The house to the right of the house had some minor damage to shingles from the exposure to the heavy flames, but firefighters contained it to minor damage on the outside. The abandoned house received extensive damage. The arson squad was called in to investigate.

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) – Long time Storm Team 8 Meteorologist Dr. Mel Goldstein passed away today. He was 66 years old. Dr. Mel, who had been fighting Multiple myeloma for a number of years, died this morning.  Read full story…

Dr. Mel – What a Ride It’s Been: wtnh.com

(Westport, CT) Today at approximately 6:45 am the Westport Police Department received a 9-1-1
call that a pedestrian was struck by a motor vehicle at the intersection of Post Road East at Playhouse Square. The Westport Police, EMS and Fire Department responded and Emergency personnel treated the pedestrian at the scene and then transported her to Norwalk Hospital.

The pedestrian, Adrienne Garcia, age 45 of New Milford Connecticut was attempting to cross four lanes of traffic on Post Road East in the area of Playhouse Square when she was struck by a 2000 Mercedes SUV driven by Saul Gideon, age 60 of Norwalk Connecticut. According to witness statements the Mercedes was driving eastbound on the Post Road and turned left into Playhouse Square with a green traffic control light and impacted Garcia who was in the outside westbound lane of Post Road East.

Garcia suffered non-life threatening injuries. She was found at fault and issued an infraction ticket for
failure to Yield the Right of Way to a Vehicle when not crossing within a Crosswalk.

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has supported selling alcohol on Sunday.  “It’s embarrassing Connecticut was only one of two states in the nation that has not allowed Sunday sales,” he said, adding that it is a loss of revenue to liquor stores here. According to the Washington, D.C.-based Distilled Spirits Council, Connecticut also loses $8 million annually in tax revenue due to the lack of Sunday alcohol sales.  Read full story…

What’s in a name? Apparently nothing aside from a decades-long mythology when it comes to the vaunted “frozen tundra” at Lambeau Field.  In a story in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times, the newspaper reported the turf at the Green Bay Packers‘ home stadium hasn’t been frozen during a football game for more than 40 years.    Read full story

 

The Italian Coast Guard says its divers have found 2 more bodies aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship. The discovery of the bodies brings to 5 the number of known dead after the ship ran aground with some 4,200 people aboard. (Jan. 15)

An unattended candle is suspected in a fire that broke out at 111 Maple Street around 8:30pm Saturday night.  Quick action by firefighters confined the fire to a third story window frame despite a windy cold night.  Olivia Bell, the tenant of the second and third floor was taking her daughter out of the bathtub when the smoke alarm alerted her.  She saw smoke fill her bedroom and she gathered the children and ran into the frigid night air.    Assistant Fire Chief Richard Thode said the firefighters will cover the window over with tar paper and the tenants will be able to remain in the home.

Judging from this post on WTNH’s website it looks as if they are looking for a news anchor to replace Sonia Baghdady.   The post says: ” You’ll be anchoring most of your newscasts sitting next to this guy, Darren Kramer (Go ahead and take a peek, I’ll make it easy: http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_team/darren_kramer)”.  The anchor that works with Darren is Sonia.   This is sometimes a negotiation tactic to scare talent that they are looking for a replacement.

Soinia Baghdady joined WTNH in December 2002 and has anchors the weekday evening shows “News 8″ at 5pm, 5:30 and 11pm.  Sonia is a graduate of Fairfield University and her sister Amanda Baghdady, a biology teacher at Bethel High School, in Bethel, Connecticut.  Sonia has also modeled and Sonia’s portfolio can be found online  at d.d. Nickle

Shortly after 3:30pm Saturday a car parked on North Avenue suddenly accelerated, jumping the curb, broke through a railing and crashed into a a car parked at  M & M Auto Repair located at 414 North Avenue.     Marcos Zasilva was inside M&M Auto Repair the accident occurred and said he thought something exploded inside the shop.   Assistant Fire Chief Ivan Fossesigurani of the Bridgeport Fire Department said the car knocked out a main  support truss making the building unstable until they get someone shore it up.  Fossesigurani said the driver of the vehicle was rushed to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Shortly after 11am this morning after a three car crash on the Route 7 connector.  6 people from the Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that rolled were hospitalized, witnesses tell us about three of the occupants were thrown from the vehicle.  They were transported to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport because Norwalk Hospital was on trauma diversion, which means they were not accepting patients at that time with serious injuries.  Condition of those hospitalized are not known at this time.   Special thanks to Nate Yates for providing the photo.