Low-hanging wires reported as fire hazard at house

Heard on: Lower Naugatuck Valley Fire and EMS

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

All Woodbridge Police, All Woodbridge Fire Department, if you can please respond to Burnt Swamp and Amity.

00:05

Burnt Swamp and Amity, it's going to be for the public hazard.

00:09

The officer called it in, states that there's multiple wires that are connected to the house, they're low hanging.

00:14

Just want to make sure it's not a fire hazard.

00:20

This is radio.

00:26

Roger, is this radio (name withheld)?

00:28

Tree and wire.

00:34

Straight there at Burnt Swamp and Watchers, where we were last night for this.

00:41

I'm gonna assume it's one and the same.

00:44

I know that there's a tree that's already been cut down, so if it was with a tree, then that would probably be the same.

00:55

It is the same.

00:58

Was there no hazard yesterday?

01:01

You can show it to the roof.

01:03

No, there was a hazard yesterday.

01:05

We'll go out verify that they did not turn the power back on to that house.

01:17

UI is aware.

01:19

They just haven't got a crew out there to complete that part of the work, but they did do the tree.

8/8/2026 07:16 AM

Public Hazard

Burnt Swamp Rd & Amity Rd, Woodbridge, CT 06525

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, police and fire units were dispatched near Burnt Swamp Road and Amity Road in Woodbridge for a public hazard involving multiple low-hanging wires connected to a house. The situation appears to be the same hazard reported the previous night, and responders planned to verify that power had not been restored to the affected home.