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Fires & Other Emergencies
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| March 1, 1861 - Whitney Gun Factory Explosion - Whitneyville
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| September 28, 1875 - New Haven Web Co. - Whitney Avenue in Centerville
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| April 1888 - Fresenius Brewery (later Hull's), 820 Congress Avenue, New Haven
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| January 13, 1918 - Hamden Plains Methodist Church - Dixwell and Church
100 years Ago - The first "Big One"
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| August 25, 1932 - Dextone Company, 1335 Dixwell Avenue
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| December 19, 1932 - Horton Mfg. Co (Edwards Fishing Rods), Home Place
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| July 3, 1934 - Powder Farm Explosion - Whitneyville - General Alarm
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| February 14, 1938 - Dixwell Theater, 824 Dixwell Avenue
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| September 21, 1938 - The New England Hurricane of 1938
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| January 7, 1941 - Hamilton Street School, 155 Hamilton Street, New Haven
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| January 25, 1941 - 13-15 Millis Street - two-family house fire - 8 companies respond
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| January 31, 1941 - North Haven Conregational Church, Quinnipiac Avenue (Multi-town mutual aid)
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| February 18, 1941 - Malavolti Building (Sackett Hotel Building) - Whitney and Dixwell
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| January 23, 1942 - Whitney and Dixwell - Fuel Oil Truck Overturns
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| February 3, 1942 - 60 New Road - house fire
Future HFD B/C watches from schoolhouse window
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| February 23, 1943 - Ridge Road, between Park Rd. and State Street - Oil Truck Emergency
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| December 9, 1943 - 191 Ridgewood Avenue - house fire
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| February 20, 1944 - Church Street School
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| May 8, 1946 - Himmel Brothers, 1409 Dixwell Avenue
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| March 7, 1947 - Connolly Parkway overpass and viaduct plans destroyed in structure fire
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| June 28, 1947 - Tally-Ho Restaurant, 1444 Dixwell Avenue
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| November 6, 1947 - 21 Blazes in one week
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| 1948 - Incident in Spring Glen - good photos
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| July 2, 1948 - 57 Gorham Avenue - garage fire - total loss
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| March 30, 1949 - Carwin Chemical Company, 41 Stiles Lane, North Haven
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| December 16, 1949 - Co-op Supermarket, 1840 Whitney Avenue
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| July 4, 1950 - Mass Casualty Lightning Strike - West Shepard Avenue
Letter from David Ormstedt regarding this article and Leonard Dorman Jr.
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| November 27, 1950 - 14 Thayer Street - House Explosion
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| October 23, 1952 - 134 Forest Street - house fire
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| July 25, 1953 - Sleeping Giant Quarry Claims Another Victim
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| August 27, 1953 - 42 School Street - Ff. Mickey Cantarella's dad's apartment
"Flames Flicker in Fireman's Father's Flat"
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| October 8, 1953 - Fourteen Alarms in One Week
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| January 13, 1954 - 81 Cannon Street - house fire
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| February 15, 1954 - Moose Hall, 961 Dixwell Avenue
February 15,1954 - 622 Newhall Street, three family garage
Woman saves family from flames
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| January 25, 1955 - Hoffmeister Farm, Wintergreen Avenue - Barn Fire
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| May 1, 1955 - 1885 State Street - 5 rescued from house
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| August 19, 1955 - Housatonic Valley Flood of 1955
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| April 26, 1956 - 1040 Ridge Road - house fire - fatality
North Haven made initial response
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| May 26, 1956 - Hamden Cooperative Poultry Auction Assn., 2311 Whitney Avenue
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| June 18, 1956 - 1144 Whitney Avenue - two-car garage - fully involved
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| June 26, 1956 - Hamden Smelting Company, 30 Edmund Street - magnesium fire
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| April 1, 1957 - 2989 Whitney Avenue - barn fire right behind Station 5
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| January 23, 1957 - Glenwood Drive-In, 2538 Whitney Avenue
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| January 24, 1957 - 62 Franklin Street, New Haven - factory fire - 15 fatalities
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| February 23, 1957 - Sharron's Restaurant, 421 Morse Street
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| March 17, 1957 - Corey's Wayside Market, 2381 Dixwell Avenue
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| November 11, 1957 - Eastern Atlantic Lumber Company, Circular and Gorham Avenues
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| August 29, 1958 - Wallace-Davis Company, 2813 (Old) Dixwell Avenue
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| September 6, 1958 - 231 Lane Street - Barn fire
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| October 6, 1958 - 204 West Todd Street - historic 3-story barn destroyed
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| November 30, 1958 - 176 Armory Street - house fire
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| July 9, 1959 - Dixwell Avenue - North Haven/Hamden Town Line - Gasoline Tanker Fire
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| January 31, 1959 - North Haven Brick Co., State Street, Hamden
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| March 12, 1959 - 605 Still Hill Road - house fire
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| June 2, 1960 - Whitney Avenue, between Walden and Waite - Lightning strikes garage, destroys Corvair
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| September 3, 1960 - Kimberly Avenue - house fully involved
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| December 6, 1960 - 135 Shepard Street - house fire - 3 child fatalies
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| January 29, 1961 - 12 Alstrum Street and 117 North Street
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| February 1, 1961 - 3070 Whitney Avenue - House fire (first of two the same night)
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| February 1, 1961 - 218 Skiff Street (second of two the same night)
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| March 29, 1962 - Oil Spill into Lake Whitney
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| August 8, 1962 - Reinwald's Garage, 1708 Dixwell Avenue
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| October 18, 1962 - Mountain Road - house fire
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| December 4, 1962 - W & G Machine Co., 5 Manila Avenue
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| March 31, 1963 - Manila Avenue - barn fire
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| November 19, 1963 - Elm City Service Station, 3394 Whitney Avenue
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| March 17, 1964 - 184 Greenway Street - house fire
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| November 2, 1965 - Bristol's Barn, 3926 Whitney Avenue
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| November 9, 1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965
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| November 11,1965 - Two kids rescued from West Rock
Lt. Bill Hines, Ffs. Ben Mikolinski, Paul Reutenauer, and Gil Spencer
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| May 13, 1966 - Parkway tragedy takes three lives - DUI driver at fault
Rev. Owen Sanderson's sage advice at the scene begins decades' long relationship with HFD.
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| June 21, 1966 - 304 Ridgewood Avenue - Garage destroyed
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| November 19, 1966 - 145 Spruce Bank Road - house fire (Old Brewster Mansion)
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| April 5, 1967 - Zukel Realty, 3383 Whitney Avenue - house fire
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| June 21, 1967 - Ridge Road and Dessa Drive - house fire
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| November 9, 1967 - Shepard Street - house fire
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| January 12, 1968 - Fleming Co., Broadway and Ives
50 Years Ago! - Old Woodruff Factory Burns
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| March 30, 1968 - Children's Center, 1400 Whitney Avenue
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| c. May 1968 - Whitney Avenue, Mount Carmel - 1963 Lincoln Continental - total loss
Two Co. 5 volunteers assist Ff. Dave Howe and D/C Reutenauer (Old Platoon 2)
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| April 20-21, 1969 - H & D Paper Products, 110 Webb Street - Warehouse
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| June 2, 1969 - O'Connell's Lawn Mower Shop, 923 Dixwell Avenue
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| April 10, 1970 - 26-28 Dudley Street - house fire - 2 alarms
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| September 19, 1970 - 35 Huntington Circle - house fire
Lt. Bill Hines and Ff. Dave Howe take a header
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| March 25, 1971 - 132 Santa Fe Avenue - house fire
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| July 16, 1971 - 30 Cumpstone Drive - house fire
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| January 16, 1972 - Temple Beth Sholom, 1409 Whitney Avenue - structure fire
Firefighters save sacred texts
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| February 4, 1972 - Ice Rescue off Skiff Pky. - John Mongillo Jr. photo published in LIFE Magazine
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| February 22, 1972 - 89 Mulberry Hill Road - house fire
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| February 24, 1972 - 143 Cherry Ann Street - house fire
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| February 24, 1973 - Glenbrook Avenue - Oil Tanker Disaster
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| June 2, 1973 - Pre-Mountain-Rescue-Team rescue off Sleeping Giant
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| November 28, 1973 - Leonard Concrete Plant, 372 Mather Street - $200,000 loss
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| May 7, 1974 - Mountain View Terrace, North Haven - May 2, 2014
Runaway NoH Engine injures NoH Fire Chief - Hamden called to assist in fighting house fire
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| July 22, 1974 - Hamden Ridge Apartments, 787 Mix Avenue - 3 Alarms
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| May 26, 1975 - Butterworth's Farm, opp. 640 Tuttle Avenue - Barn Fire
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| January 1976 - Regency Hill Apartments, 306 Pine Rock Avenue - Kitchen Fire
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| September 15, 1976 - "The Log Cabin," 2295 State Street - office complex - multiple alarms
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| June 10, 1976 - Maisano's Package Store, 1533 Dixwell Avenue
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| March 14, 1977 - New Haven Parks Dept, Park Road, Hamden
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| May 3-4, 1978 - West Rock Ridge State Park - brush fire
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| August 26, 1978 - Hull's Brewery, 820 Congress Avenue, New Haven
Numerous photos of the fire in an iconic New Haven landmark, courtesy of Bill Celentano Jr.
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| April 20-21, 1979 - Corey Lumber Co. and Howard Johnson fires
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| August 24-25, 1979 - Rondo of America, 100 Sanford Street
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| December 25, 1980 - 31 Ralston Avenue - House
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| July 11, 1981 - 32 Dix Street - house fire (radio transmissions - see Index)
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| October 31, 1982 - Mountain Rescue Team activated - 3 girls found on Sleeping Giant - October 27, 2017
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| January 4, 1983 - Treadwell Office Park, 295 Treadwell Street
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| September 15, 1984 - Saxony Coat Company, 1443 Dixwell Avenue
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| January 24, 1985 - "French-Italian" Fire, 1106 Dixwell Avenue
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| May 10, 1985 - 113 Goodyear Street - house fire
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| September 27-28, 1985 - Hurricane Gloria Aftermath
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| July 31, 1987 - Superior Printing, 750 Sherman Avenue - Haz-Mat Incident
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| January 6, 1988 - 47 Bradley Avenue
Youngest Hamden firefighter gets his baptism by fire - good job!
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| December 15, 1988 - 950 Mount Carmel Avenue - Fuel Truck Overturns in Driveway
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| July 10, 1989 - F4 Tornado Devastates Whitneyville, Newhallville and Highwood Neighborhoods
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| March 18, 1993 - 84 First Street - gas explosion destroys house
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| April 26, 1993 - 349 Morse Street - House Fire
Mike Murray Saves John Reynolds
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| December 17, 1993 - 36 Central Avenue - 2-alarm house fire
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| February 11, 1996 - Nixon Apartments, 631 Fitch Street - apartment fire (video)
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| March 25, 1998 - 19 Larkspur Lane - House fully involved
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| August 10, 1998 - Butterworth's Farm, Tuttle Avenue - Multiple Barns
Several towns in mutual aid response for water
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| April 29, 1999 - High Standard Mfg. Co., 1817 Dixwell Avenue - Vacant Factory
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| January 9, 2008 - 28 Turnor Avenue - House fire (fatal)
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| March 19, 2010 - QU student rescued from quarry at Sleeping Giant
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| July 7, 2014 - 11 Notkins Street - Garage
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| July 27, 2014 - Dogwood Hills Condos - 200 Evergreen Avenue
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| October 14, 2014 - Hamden Tactical Rescue Unit Assists NHFD in SCSU Trench Rescue
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| March 2015 - 107 Harrison Drive - house fire (photos only)
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| April 19, 2015 - Car plunges into Lake Whitney
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| May 12, 2015 - 460 Wintergreen Avenue - house fire
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| May 14, 2015 - 55 Kelly Road - house fire
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| May 22, 2015 - 2100 Dixwell Avenue - Car fire w/video
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| August 14, 2015 - West of Hill Street / North of Dunbar Hill Road - brush fire
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| August 30, 2015 - Town Walk Drive - uncontained oven fire - 15-year old passerby renders help
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| March 5, 2016 - Fully involved pick-up truck at Shephard Glen School - March 4, 2016
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| May 13, 2016 - Hamden High Nursery School - minor fire extinguished quickly - May 13, 2016
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| May 19, 2016 - Water rescue at Lake Wintergreen - overturned kayak
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| August 14, 2016 - 75 Beacon Street - house fire
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| August 25, 2016 - High elevation rescue of dangling worker from QU sports complex roof
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| November 9, 2016 - 787 Choate Avenue - house fire
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| November 21, 2016 - Broken Arrow Nursery Tree Farm, 680 Evergren Avenue - Barn
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| November 28, 2016 - Seramonte Apartments, 649 Mix Avenue - 2-alarms
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| January 13, 2017 - 28 Lynmot Road - house fire
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| February 1, 2017 - 567 Hartford Turnpike - house fire
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| March 30, 2017 - Hillside Village, 154 Townhouse Road - condo fire
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| April 15, 2017 - 20 Millpond Road - exterior fire
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| April 18, 2017 - 34 Second Street - 3-family - exterior fire
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| April 18, 2017 - 3075 Whitney Avenue - kitchen fire in apartment
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| April 26, 2017 - 336 Circular Avenue - electrical fire exterior of house
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| May 10, 2017 - Hillside Village, Townhouse Road - condo fire
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| July 27, 2017 - 4400 Whitney Avenue - house fire
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| August 4, 2017 - 68 Maple Avenue, North Haven (mutual aid) - house fire
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| October 19, 2017 - 23 Newton Street - house fire
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| November 2, 2017 - 109 Valley Road - house fire
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| November 20, 2017 - 220 Garvin Road - house fire
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| November 23, 2017 - 132-143 Shepard Street - Thanksgiving Day House Fire - 2 Towns
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| November 26, 2017 - Regency Hills Condos - 302 Pine Rock Avenue
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| December 5, 2017 - Lakeshore Apartments - 1047 Whitney Avenue
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| December 29, 2017 - 103 Charlton Street - house fire - improperly discarded ashes
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| January 30, 2018 - 1351 Dixwell Avenue parking lot - bus fire - February 2, 2018
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| April 22, 2018 - 192 Eramo Terrace - house fire
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| May 15, 2018 - Tornado Rips Through West Woods and Mt. Carmel
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| July 11, 2018 - 768 Pine Rock Avenue - structure fire
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| July 15, 2018 - Old Station 6, 21 Merritt Street - structure fire - good stop
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