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🌱 Patch AM: North Stonington Firefighters Battle Structure Fire Before Responding To Serious Crash

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In today's newsletter:

  • North Stonington crews juggle fire, medical call and serious rollover crash
  • OUI charge follows serious late-night rollover crash on Route 2

Also on today's calendar: Jay Medal Soirée and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the burglar wear blue gloves? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Humid; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 77 and low of 70 degrees.
  • Thursday: Breezy with a stray t-storm, temps: high: 83, low: 60.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 77 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• North Stonington Firefighters Battle Structure Fire Before Responding To Serious Crash (patch.com) — North Stonington residents saw firefighters tackle a fully involved structure fire Saturday night before racing to a cardiac arrest call and then a serious rollover crash on Route 2. Local volunteers, aided by neighboring departments, rescued a trapped occupant, treated severe injuries with a tourniquet, and transported two people to area hospitals, underscoring the heavy workload on the town's emergency crews.
   

• Man Charged With OUI After Serious Injury Crash In North Stonington: Reports (patch.com) — North Stonington drivers are being warned after police charged a 30-year-old man with OUI and multiple offenses in a late-night Route 2 crash that left one person seriously hurt. Firefighters had to free a trapped occupant from a rolled-over vehicle, and two people were taken to the hospital as the road was shut down overnight.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Mystic

  • The Mystic and the Missing Girl (blogspot.com)
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  • Solar farm fire that prompted shelter order in Summerside, P.E.I., is contained (castanet.net)

Groton

  • Goodwin University Magnet Schools Expands Partnership with General Dynamics Electric Boat (ctbythenumbers.news)
  • Technical Discussion: Muggier ahead of showers later this week (wfsb.com)

Ledyard

  • Inman, Allen, Weber: Recent Death Notices From Ledyard (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: So he wouldn't get caught red handed. (Thank you Vicki B. for sending it in!)
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