NLC Fire Wire

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

Approximately 03:00 AM on Sunday, 5/31/26

Groton Connecticut
Ledges Apartments
135 Ledgewood Road Groton CT

G38 on scene with heavy fire showing from the second floor extending all the way up the Delta side, second alarm. Engine 32 told to lay hit the hydrant on the Delta side and hit it with their deck gun.

G38 establishing command, operations on fireground 2.

Police saying they need help with getting people out.

03:06
3rd Alarm
Sub Base Truck 65 to remove a female victim from the fourth floor balcony.

Old Mystic Engine 62 laid in to Groton Truck 15.

Engine 71 to hit a hydrant on Wildwood and lay in to Sub Base Truck 65.

03:22
Multiple floors of fire and heavy fire in the attic.

Members pulled out, going defensive.

Command post on the A/D corner.

Companies responding
Poquonnock Bridge Engine 32, Truck 35, G38, G3. Engine 33 with callbacks
Groton City Engine 11, Truck 15
Sub Base Engine 62, Truck 65
Electric Boat Engine 11
New London Engine 1, Truck 2
Old Mystic Engine 62, Truck 65
Center Groton Engine 71
Mohegan Tribal FAST
Gales Ferry Engine 21
Waterford Squad 4
Old Saybrook Truck 1 and Rescue 3 FAST
Noank Engine 42
North Stonington Engine 151
Ledyard Engine 11 not available, committed at previous fire.
Norwich Truck 1 & Battalion
East Lyme Engine 21
Montville Engine 13
L&M Medic 12
Groton Ambulance for two ambulances
Groton Utilities
Providence Canteen

Pawcatuck Truck 45 and Wequetequock Engine 31 for Poquonnock Bridge station coverage.

Wequetequock retoned, crew still needed.

New London Engine 1 to lay in from the rear and lay in to Truck 2.

Poquonnock Bridge Fire Marshals and the Connecticut Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit are investigating.

Footage Credit: Jeff Douchette and Old Saybrook Fire

05/31/2026

12:38 AM Sunday, 5/31/26

Ledyard

Condos at 120 Gallup Hill Road, Apartment 10A

Ledyard and Gales Ferry with Mashantucket Engine 1 & Truck 1 dispatched to a reported bathroom fire with extension to the attic.

R1 on scene working fire, Preston Engine 11, Mohegan Tribal FAST and American Ambulance added.

Engine 13 to lay in. Ladder 25 to set up for the roof.

Second alarm adding Sub Base Truck 65, North Stonington Engine 151, Laurel Hill Engine 62.

12:52
East Great Plain Rescue 5 and Norwich FAST added

Center Groton Engine 71 covering Ledyard Station 1
Mohegan Fire Company covering Gales Ferry

First photo from Joseph Moore

05/29/2026

At 10:28 am on Friday, 5/29/26 the Danielson Fire Department with South Killingly, Atwood Hose, Attawaugan FAST, Moosup FAST and KB Ambulance with the QV Medic were dispatched to 263 Mechanic Street for a house fire.

10:32
Car 465 on scene with smoke showing. Updated as a first floor kitchen fire, best access through the Charlie side door.

10:33
Engine 261 on scene.
Car 61 has command

10:35
Dayville Station 63 added.

10:36
Fireground will be on Tac 5. One line entering through the rear. Second being stretched.

10:38
Williamsville added to supplement Moosup FAST.

Police requested for a person causing problems.

05/24/2026

Sad news out of Boston, Massachusetts tonight where a firefighter was killed in the line of duty while operating at a third alarm house fire in the Dorchester section.

Boston’s fire commissioner said Robert Kilduff Jr., of Rescue Co. 2...

05/20/2026

President Donald Trump was the keynote speaker at the United States Coast Guard Academy's 145th Commencement Ceremony on Wednesday, 5/20/26.

Air Force One landed at Groton-New London Airport shortly before 11 a.m. Trump stepped off it a short time afterward and his motorcade headed to the academy.

The New London Fire Department has a standby assignment at the Coast Guard Academy staffing an engine, a truck company and two ambulances. The Waterford Ambulance Service is also providing coverage for the event.

Congratulations to the graduating class from the Coast Guard Academy!

05/20/2026

At 1:35 pm on Wednesday, 5/20/26 the Norwich Police Department detained a female driver and male passenger who were in a File 1 (stolen motor vehicle) at the Shell Gas Station on West Town Street in Norwich. The Mercedes was stolen out of New York City.

The Norwich Police Department works hard to protect the Rose of New England and is looking for applicants for anyone thinking of becoming a cop.

05/20/2026

At 11:52 am on Wednesday, 5/20/26 North Stonington Fire & Ambulance with Mashantucket Engine 1, Pawcatuck Engine 42, Ashaway Engine 414, Tanker 415, Hope Valley T-915, Old Mystic G-62 FAST with an L&M Medic were dispatched to 43 Boom Bridge Road for smoke coming from the basement.

Ladder 151 on scene with smoke showing, working basement fire.

12:11
Ladder 151 reporting water on the fire. Tanker 351 to nurse them.