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Tree Lands on Pickup Truck in New Canaan Friday, Injuring and Trapping Driver

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A tree fell amid extreme high winds Friday and fell on a pickup truck in the area of Canoe Hill Road, officials said. The incident happened around 3 p.m., according to New Canaan Fire Chief Jack Hennessey. The tree did “significant damage” to the pickup and trapped the driver in the car, according to Hennessey. Members of the New Canaan Police Department, New Canaan Fire Department and New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded and freed the trapped driver, he said. He was extricated using the jaws of life, and transported to a hospital, Hennessey said.

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New Canaan, Area Firefighters Respond to Barn Fire on South Avenue Late Sunday [UPDATED]

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Barn destroyed by fire in New Canaan Sunday Oct. 22.

New Canaan and area firefighters battled a barn fire late Sunday at a South Avenue property near the Darien town line. At about 7:43 p.m. Sunday, New Canaan Fire Department members, career and volunteer, raced to the blaze at 986 South Ave. No one was hurt in the fire, according to Fire Chief Jack Hennessey. Its cause is under investigation, he said. The 2-acre property includes the barn as well as a 1790-built house and cottage, tax records show.

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‘It Was Life-Changing’: NCHS Grad Gives Back To Program Supporting Women with Breast Cancer

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When she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in March 2011—soon to undergo chemotherapy, radiation and two surgeries for a lumpectomy—Karen Tiani Hussey felt that she needed to do something for herself. The 1983 New Canaan High School graduate’s friends knew that she had breast cancer, but didn’t truly understand how she felt while fighting the disease. Soon she heard about a two-day retreat in upstate Connecticut for women in all stages of breast cancer. “For me, it was life-changing,” Tiani recalled on a recent morning, one of about 20 people including several New Canaan firefighters gathered outside Town Hall and wearing pink ‘Casting for Recovery’ T-shirts during a mini-rally for this Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “The camaraderie among the women.

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Chief: Fire at Silver Ridge Road Home Causes Significant Damage; Minor Injury to New Canaan Firefighter

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A New Canaan firefighter sustained a minor injury Saturday evening while fighting a blaze that caused significant damage to a Silver Ridge Road home. Nobody was home at the time the fire was reported by a passerby at 5 p.m., according to a press release from New Canaan Fire Department Chief Jack Hennessey. The fire caused significant damage to the first floor of the home at 48 Silver Ridge Road, smoke and heat damage to the second floor and water damage to the basement, according to the press release. New Canaan Police were first on scene and confirmed there was nobody at home, Hennessey said. The fire was brought under control with mutual aid assistance from the Norwalk, Wilton and Vista, N.Y. Fire Departments, he said.

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New Canaan Firefighters Control Oenoke Ridge Blaze after Underground Propane Tank Ignites

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Firefighters on Monday finished a full 23-hour controlled burn-off of an underground propane tank on Oenoke Ridge Road that had ignited over the weekend, officials said. The New Canaan Fire Department around 11:45 a.m. Monday responded to the burning tank, which ignited after a leak had been caused by work being done on it, according to Fire Chief Jack Hennessey. One individual working on the tank suffered minor injuries as a result, officials said. Firefighters immediately contained the fire and controlled the leak, fully burning off the propane inside the tank in order to eliminate the hazard, Hennessey said. Specifically, firefighters sprayed a water mist “to disperse unburned propane vapors that were leaking from the damaged tank to prevent an uncontrolled ignition,” he said.