Thompson, CT – Over the past two weeks Thompson firefighters have responded to multiple brush fires as the state faces critical fire weather conditions. There doesn’t appear to be an end in sight as Governor Lamont declares a State of Emergency.
Since Sunday, October 12th, the volunteers that make up Thompson’s 5 fire departments, along with neighboring departments, have responded to 4 brush fires, each taking hours to extinguish. While all of these fires have been held to under an acre burnt, each one has burned deep into the layer of decomposing pine needles and leaves that make up the forest floor.
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On Thursday morning as a light rain moved through the area, crews responded to a brush fire encroaching on a shed, luckily the fire was stopped quickly keeping the damage minimal.
As crews continued to fight fires in town, members of the Community Fire Company deployed to Berlin CT with their UTV to assist agencies from across the state on the Hawthorne Fire which claimed the life of a Wethersfield Firefighter earlier this week.
On Friday afternoon Governor Lamont Declared a State of Emergency “weather conditions that exist throughout Connecticut, as well as the continued response to the brush fire at Lamentation Mountain in Berlin and Meriden, which is being commonly referred to as the Hawthorne Fire.”
Agencies that have responded to the fires below include the East Thompson Volunteer Fire Department, Thompson Fire Engine Company (Thompson Hill), Quinebaug Vol Fire Department, Community Fire Company, West Thompson Fire Department, East Putnam Fire Department, Putnam Fire Department, Webster Fire Department, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Forestry.
View our recent galleries from the Thompson fires below.
