Find Your Daily Voice
39°
Liquid Nitrogen Spill: Abandoned Car Cause Of I-395 Traffic Chaos, Hazmat Emergency In CT
An abandoned car on Interstate 395 caused a tanker carrying 7,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen to overturn, leading to hours of traffic disruption and environmental risks, authorities said.
James Wyatt Fitzgerald, 29, of Danielson, is accused of leaving his disabled 2011 Hyundai Elantra partially in a travel lane on Thursday, Dec. 26, after striking a center median guardrail and a bridge on the right shoulder, Connecticut State Police said.
The crash occurred early Thursday morning on the northbound side of I-395 near Exit 28. The tanker, driven by a 49-year-old Rhode Island man, swerved to a…
Liquid Nitrogen Vapor Cloud, Overturned Tanker Shuts I-395
A stretch of I-395 is currently closed between Griswold and Plainfield due to an overturned tanker carrying liquid nitrogen on Thursday, Dec. 26, firefighters said.
Related: Police Charge Man For Causing Liquid Nitrogen Truck Crash
⚠️ I-395 Closure UPDATE ⚠️
The overtuned TT tanker is carrying liquid nitrogen, which is an inert gas that is... Posted by Plainfield Fire Co. #1 on Thursday, December 26, 2024
As of 6:30 a.m., the roadway was closed between Exit 24 in Griswold and Exit 28 in Plainfield, according to Plainfield Fire Co. 1.
The incident, reported overnight, ha…
Whoops: Speeding CT Driver Slams Into Police Department Sign, Cops Say
An alleged speeding Connecticut driver who was accused of being high on alcohol or drugs slammed into a police department's sign, destroying it.
The incident took place in Windham County around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4 in Plainfield.
When notified by police dispatchers of a crash in front of the department officers walked outside to find a silver Honda Accord against the department's entrance sign, the department said.
The driver, Mason Heath, age 30, of Central Village, the historic district of Plainfield, was on the scene, police said.
An investigation was conducted which revealed tha…
Wrong-Way Driver Charged With DUI, CT State Police Say
A man driving the wrong way on a roadway in the region has been accused of driving while under the influence on Thanksgiving Day morning.
At about 5:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, Connecticut State Police in Windham County at Troop D in Danielson said multiple 911 calls reported a black SUV, displaying a Massachusetts registration, traveling southbound, at a high rate of speed, in the northbound lanes of I-395, in Plainfield.
With the assistance of Plainfield Police, the vehicle was located and safely brought to a stop in the area of Exit 29, in Plainfield, according to Connecticut …
1 Dead In Large CT Apartment Fire, Police Say
One person was killed in a large, early morning apartment fire in Connecticut.
The blaze broke out in Windham County around 12:40 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 17 in Moosup.
Members of the Plainfield Police responded to the area of Moosup Gardens Apartments on Gorman Street for a report of a structure fire involving multiple apartment units, police officials said.
Upon arrival, officers discovered that there was potential entrapment of residents within the affected apartments of Building 5, police said.
The Moosup Fire Department, with the assistance of Plainfield, Atwood Hose, Cent…
CT Man Nabbed For Sexual Assault Of Minor, Police Say
A Connecticut man, who has been hiding from the police, was arrested on a warrant for alleged sexual assault of a minor.
Windham County resident Gillan R. Gardner, age 47, was arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 24, after he was found at an area park.
Gardner, of Plainfield, had an active warrant stemming from a November incident in which a juvenile girl reported he had inappropriate sexual contact with her, said Plainfield Chief of Police Mario A. Arriaga.
He was arrested and charged with sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, with the help of the state Department of Energy&n…
Henri: Here's How Many CT Residents Are Now Without Power
Thousands in Connecticut are without power following the round of storms that rolled through the region, though the damage was not as bad as expected.
As late Monday morning, Aug. 23, more than 8,000 of Eversource’s 1.28 million customers in the state are reporting outages.
United Illuminating is working to repair seven active outages impacting more than 1,100 of the company’s customers.
The most outages are being reported in:
Pomfret (708),
Woodstock (659),
Thompson (628),
Brooklyn (595),
Plainfield (536),
Canterbury (528),
Town of Fairfield (454)
P…