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4:00pm–#Bridgeport CT– Report of a possible structure fire at 39 Boston Street. Currently there is only an odor of smoke. UPDATE — There is no fire.

3:18pm–#Bridgeport CT– Report of a burglary at the  2000 block of  Maddison Avenue. The window was broken into.

(Bridgeport, CT – July 18, 2012) — The State Police Gang Task Force executed a search and seizure warrant at 1020 Hancock Ave. Wednesday and seized two handguns, along with cash and drugs.

Antonio Small, 21, of that address, was arrested after jumping from a third-floor porch in an effort to escape police.

Members of the police Emergency Services Unit reacted immediately, grabbing Small as he hung from the exterior of the porch.  Due to their quick response, ESU members on the third- and second-floor landings were able to safely pull Small onto the second-floor porch before he fell three stories, according to Bridgeport Sgt. Jason Amato.

He was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school, operating a drug factory, destruction of property during search warrant, tampering with evidence, interfering with police and theft of a firearm.

Gang Task Force officers had received information that occupants of the apartment were selling narcotics and were in possession of several illegal firearms. Bridgeport SWAT, under the command of Deputy Chief Anthony Armeno and Capt. James Viadero, made entry into the third-floor residence.

At that time, Small was throwing items out of the third-floor kitchen window into the neighbor’s yard. One of the items thrown from the window was a loaded semi-automatic firearm.  Bridgeport’s ESU members who were positioned on the rear third-floor porch area watched as Small then ran out of the rear doorway to his apartment and leapt off of the third floor landing.

ESU members reacted immediately, grabbing Small as he was hanging from the exterior of the porch.

Task Force Officers seized the loaded firearm from the neighboring yard along with crack cocaine and packaging. A subsequent search of the residence located another loaded .40 caliber semi-auto pistol, packaging materials and cash. The pistol thrown out of the window was found to have been stolen from Norwalk approximately a year earlier.

3:00pm–#Bridgeport CT– Report of a motor vehicle accident at Myrtle Avenue and Prospect Street.

2:02pm–#Fairfield CT A gas main has been struck by a construction crew this time at  5151 Park Avenue at Sacred Heart University.  Last month a construction crew hit a gas main at Ludlowe Health Care on Jefferson Street.  UPDATE–3:11pm–Gas leak has been stopped.

11:48am–#Derby CT–EMS on the way to Emmett Avenue for a person with a partial finger amputation from a lawnmower.

1:18am–#Bridgeport CT–Additional firefighters on the way to Harborview Towers at 376 East Washington Avenue.  Firefighters on scene for an alarm report smoke in the ceiling on the 10th floor.  Turns out to be food burning on the stove….

#FAIRFIELD, CT, July 17, 2013: At 5:52 P.M. the Emergency Communications Center received a report of Propane Gas Grill on Fire in the rear yard of a Northwood Road residence.  The Fairfield Fire Department responded within minutes with four engines and two ladder companies.  Engine Three, stationed only one block away, arrived on scene and extinguished the fire with an extinguisher under the command of LT Darrick Lundeen.

Soon after the fire was extinguished personnel noticed that propane gas was leaking from the valve area of the twenty pound cylinder.  Personnel monitored the air using combustible gas meters and determined that the concentration was not a hazard to area residences. Personnel were unable to stop the leaking gas so a determination was made to conduct a controlled burn under the direction of Hazmat Technicians Philip Plante and Thomas Pond.

With equipment borrowed from the Fairfield County Hazardous Incident Team, technicians on scene were able to burn off the remaining propane using a device call a “flare tower”.  Without this useful tool, escaping propane, which is heavier than air may have found an ignition source.  Assistant Chief Erik Kalapir said, “Quick thinking by the son alerting his mother of the fire with quick notification of 911 and a speedy response by emergency crews prevented this from becoming a real tragedy.”