In the aftermath of yesterday's structure fire in a commercial strip mall off of Greenwood Ave., Bethel Police and EMS take to social media to to express gratitude! Please read the message below.
It takes a village, and (as word has gotten around) a lot of firetrucks too when there is a fire. Why? Fighting a fire requires a lot of tools, specialized equipment, and the people who are trained to use it. We'll share more on that someday down the road.
For now, we just wanted to thank all of our brothers and sisters of the fire service who came to work with us and help keep a bad situation from becoming catastrophic.
Yesterday's Greenwood Avenue fire was under the command of Bethel Fire & EMS Chief Car 1, with support from officers from several neighboring departments.
Departments on scene that assisted included:
Station Coverage (aka, neighboring departments who come and protect the rest of the town while the list above focused on the major incident) included:
We had the Fairfield County Coordinator on site. We also had tremendous assistance from Bethel Police Department in closing Greenwood Ave. Bethel's dispatchers were also excellent throughout the incident. Eversource assisted with securing utilities.
We noticed a lot of people were watching today while the events unfolded. We appreciate that you stayed back and gave us some room to safely operate. Do you have questions about what you saw? Message us. We want to educate everyone on how and why we do what we do... and maybe even inspire YOU to join our team to be on the other side of the caution tape next time.
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