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Bridgeport 3-Year-Old ID'd As Drowning Victim Bridgeport 3-Year-Old ID'd As Drowning Victim
Bridgeport 3-Year-Old ID'd As Drowning Victim A 3-year-old Fairfield County child has been identified as the victim of a drowning in a backyard kiddie pool. Related: Infant Drowns At Bridgeport Home The incident occurred in Bridgeport around 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, at a home on the city's west side. According to Tiadora Josef, spokeswoman for the Bridgeport Police, the child was found unresponsive in a small 3-foot children's pool. First responders immediately began CPR and other life-saving measures on the child, Josef said. The child was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital and later pronounced dead. The Detective Bureau res…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Screams Echo Through Downtown Hartford After Boy Apparently Struck By Car Screams Echo Through Downtown Hartford After Boy Apparently Struck By Car
Screams Echo Through Downtown Hartford After Boy Apparently Struck By Car Screams echoed through Downtown Hartford Friday evening after at least one person was apparently struck by a car, witnesses say. "I heard screams," said a resident of 101 Pearl St, who captured footage of good Samaritans rushing to aid an unknown number of victims on the ground around 5:20 p.m. At the sceneSpecial to Daily Voice Video from the scene shows a boy being placed on a stretcher and a man on the ground. It was not immediately clear who had been struck, or by which car. An ambulance, firefighters, and police cars were at the scene as of 5:30 p.m. The street was closed in both …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Two Students Injured During Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say Two Students Injured During Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say
Two Students Injured During Fairfield County School Bus Crash, Police Say Two schoolchildren were hospitalized following a school bus crash which also injured the driver in Fairfield County. It happened just after 3 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9 in the Town of Fairfield on Mountain Laurel road near Stroll Rock Common,  First responders reported the school bus struck a tree and the bus was transporting four Fairfield School children at the time of the collision, said Fairfield PD Lt. Edward J. Weihe. Two of the children sustained facial lacerations and were transported to Bridgeport Hospital. The bus driver also sustained unknown injuries and was transported t…

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by Kathy Reakes