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.
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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!
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2020-08-06@1:14pm–#Fairfield CT– Police were called to Stratfield Road for a person harassing UI employees.
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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.
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2020-08-06@11:21am–#Fairfield CT #ctfire– Firefighters on London Terrace for a kitchen fire.
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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?
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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 most people, people who are trapped in their apartments, people that need life assistance, and UI’s response is that they, “don’t prioritize our restorations based on health.”
Bridgeport has confirmed that over 9,000 customers lost power last evening during the storm. Today, approximately 8,500 customers remain without power with no estimated time for restoration.
Residents in need of emergency shelter can contact the American Red Cross at 1-877-287-3327 for assistance.
The Emergency Operations Center received more than 300 calls for service due to downed wires, fallen trees, wire fires, and storm related incidents that were attended to by Bridgeport Fire Department, Police, and Public Facilities responders.
City DPF crew continue to address downed trees, while waiting for UI to clear down wires.
Emergency Operations and DPF staff are looking to set up charging stations at various schools and will update the community tomorrow.
The Department of Public Health & Social Services are conducting wellness checks – all while following protocols to remain vigilant in the prevention COVID-19.
Bridgeport officials will continue to provide updates as they become available and as operations for restoration progress.
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(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 relatively on the track that meteorologists had predicted.
“Several years ago, Connecticut experienced largescale outages that took days to recover from, and we were told that the utilities were improving their resources so that they can be prepared for the next time Mother Nature inevitably hits again,” Governor Lamont said. “And now here we are, with a wholly inadequate response to another storm. I’m asking PURA to begin this investigation so that we can determine whether the companies are meeting their legal obligations and whether any penalties need to be applied. The people of Connecticut deserve better than the service they are receiving.”
Governor Lamont is asking PURA to:
Consider whether the utilities were adequately prepared and have the resources they need to respond to significant weather events;
Evaluate their response and whether it met regulatory and statutory requirements;
Determine whether resources that were invested into their outage response system was prudent in light of the recent system failures; and
Determine whether civil penalties should be applied.
PURA is an independent state office responsible for regulating the rates and services of Connecticut’s investor-owned electricity, natural gas, water and telecommunication companies and is the franchising authority for the state’s cable television companies. In the industries that are still wholly regulated, PURA balances the public’s right to safe, adequate and reliable utility service at reasonable rates with the provider’s right to a reasonable return on its investment. PURA also keeps watch over competitive utility services to promote equity among the competitors while customers reap the price and quality benefits of competition and are protected from unfair business practices
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