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Author: Stephen Krauchick
DoingItLocal is run by Steve Krauchick. Steve has always had interest with breaking news even as an early teen, opting to listen to the Watergate hearings instead of top 40 on the radio. His interest in news spread to become the communities breaking news leader in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. He strongly believes that the public has right to know what is happening in their backyard and that government needs to be transparent. Steve also likes promoting local businesses.
#Bridgeport Connecticut–The best tip Domino’s Pizza driver Jonathan Council could have received is if he listened to K-9 Officer Mark Martocchio advice to move his car on the narrow Olive Street ( or hold the olives). Instead he moved his car further up the block and now was blocking traffic. After refusing to show the officer his registration and then throwing it at the officer, instead of receiving an infraction for improper parking he then added Interfering with an Officer like adding toppings to a pizza. After a cheesy mugshot and posting a $5,000 bond he was released from custody. The officer delivered the pizzas to the woman who ordered it for her family’s dinner and instructed here to contact Domino’s for payment. No word if any of this showed up on the Domino’s Order Tracker App and Domino’s refused comment.
9:35pm–@FairfieldU #FairfieldU–#Fairfield CT– First responders on the way to Prep Alley at Fairfield University for a 19 year old allegedly intoxicated with a face laceration from walking into a wall according to radio reports.
8:08pm–#Stratford Connecticut–A tractor trailer caught fire outside of Nichols School at 396 Nichols Avenue. The school’s ventilation system sucked in the the smoke filling the school with heavy smoke according to radio reports. So kiddies the firefighters did a great job ventilating the school and there will be school tomorrow!
8:38pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut–Officers on patrol at Trumbull Gardens reporting shots fired near the basketball court area according to radio reports. So far no one or anything hit.
12:33pm–#Bridgerpot CT–Firefightters are on scene at 99 Princeton Street for a furnace malfunction, no fire. But now you know what all the commotion was about!
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#Fairfield Connecticut–On March 16, 2016 at 1:13 PM, the Fairfield 911 Communications Center received a report that a neighbor at 275/277 Jennings Road heard a smoke detector sounding in an upstairs apartment. The Fairfield Fire Department was dispatched to an automatic fire alarm and the first unit arrived on scene within 3 minutes to find smoke coming from the second floor windows. The first floor tenants had evacuated the building and met firefighters outside with their pets. Firefighters entered the 2nd floor of the structure to find heavy smoke conditions throughout. While performing a search for victims and the source of the fire, firefighters found an unconscious victim in a smoke filled bedroom. The victim was confused, difficult to awaken and unaware of what was happening. The victim was quickly assisted out of the building and medical care initiated by fire personnel on scene while awaiting an ambulance form AMR. Further search of the apartment located a small fire on the stove which was quickly extinguished and no additional victims or pets inside the building. Fire personnel ventilated the building and monitored the atmosphere to ensure no hazardous gases were present. AMR transported the victim, an approx. 30 year old male, to Bridgeport Hospital for smoke exposure and evaluation.
Assistant Chief Scott R. Bisson stated, “The presence of a working smoke detector and the quick actions of the downstairs tenant calling 911 truly saved a life today. Small fires can create a lot of smoke that can be more deadly than the fire itself to sleeping occupants.” Bisson further stated, “With daylight savings time this past weekend, this is a good reminder for all residents to make sure that they changed their batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to ensure they will alert you to a problem.”
The fire damage was confined to the stove area. The two family house remained habitable and the down stairs tenants were allowed to reoccupy after ventilation of the whole house to remove residual smoke and fire gases. The last fire unit cleared the scene at 1:54 PM.
Larry Judge from Interstate Batteries at 125 Holland Avenue was one of the first sponsors on DoingItLocal back when we had about 5,000 followers on Facebook. Today we have over 35,000 followers and this week our combined audience was over 350,000 ! Larry has been so happy with the results of his advertising he has secured a three year lease with a street legal Kyle Bush NASCAR Interstate car for me to go to news calls in!
So if you see me parked, please feel free to stop me for a selfie, or if you don’t want see my mug in the picture feel free to pose with the car! Everyone including the first responders will know it is me.
Police officers please note, the car looks fast standing still so …
