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Bridgeport News: Fire Displaces Fifteen Families

2023-04-09@4:15pm--#Bridgeport News: 15 families are without a home as the fire jumped from one apartment building to another aided by stiff breezes. Three alarms were called to bring additional personnel and equipment to the scene. Assistant Chief Sanzo told me that one firefighter received burns to his hands and a woman jumped from the 3rd floor onto a lower roof and was rescued by firefighters as well as 2 dogs. The fire marshal was called in to investigate the cause of the fire. https://youtu.be/XUITWDtLV1Y

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Statement on Park City Communities Plans to Evict 500 Residents The residents who live in Bridgeport Public Housing are deeply disappointed in the behavior of Jilian Baldwin and the team at PCC. It is our belief that their recent announcement of the eviction of nearly 2000 residents is an opaque, calculated plan to : 1. improve Park City Community’s HUD status from “Troubled” 2. shift financial responsibility to city, federal and regional funding sources 3. use the lives of the women, children and men who live in PCC as pawns that can be used to create leverage in a scheme to shift financial responsibility and improve the optics around how PCC housing operates. At the same time, PCC remains an…

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Bridgeport News: Person Shot

#Bridgeport CT--On April 7, 2023, at approximately 1:05 am a ShotSpotter activation occurred at building 4 in the Greene Homes Housing Complex. ShotSpotter is a gunshot detection system. Ballistic evidence was collected within the housing complex. On April 7, 2023, at approximately 1:35 am the Bridgeport Emergency Operations Center received information that a male party presented at an area hospital suffering from a single gunshot wound to the knee. The victim is a 34-year-old man who was uncooperative and only provided conflicting information to law enforcement and hospital staff as to where the incident occurred. His injury is reported to be non-life-threatening. Anyone with information about this crime is requested to contact the Detective Bureau, Detective John Knapp, at 203-581-5251.…

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