Bill would end ban of paid firefighters volunteering

HARTFORD, CT - The General Assembly has passed House Bill 5646 that stops cities and towns from banning their paid firefighters from serving as volunteer firefighters in their home towns.

The Senate gave the bill final legislative approval on Wednesday. It now heads to Gov. M. Jodi Rell for her signature.

Over the years, several towns with paid fire departments have enacted bans, including East Hartford and New Britain. Most recently, Hartford decided to enact this prohibition, effective July 1.

The bill applies to paid firefighters who volunteer during their personal time.

Posted on 08 May 2008 @ 07:05 by Tom Alessi

State Trooper, Craig Murray, 38, Dies

STORRS, Conn. (May 7, 2008) -- Former University of Connecticut fullback Craig Murray passed away of natural causes on Saturday at age 38 while camping with his family in Ashford, Conn. After UConn, Murray went on to serve in the Connecticut State Police where he worked as a detective and was most recently assigned to the State Police forensic polygraph examiner unit.

Murray entered the State Police Academy in November of 1994. He served with Troop A in Southbury, Troop G in Bridgeport and later Troop C in Tolland when he relocated with his family to Stafford Springs. He also served as a popular School Resource Officer at E.O. Smith High School in Mansfield. In 2007, he requested an assignment as a State Police polygraph examiner and successfully completed his coursework at the elite polygraph examiners school to earn that assignment.

The funeral with full State Police Department honors will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday May 10 at John E. Julian Heritage Park Stafford St., Stafford Springs. Calling hours are on Friday from 4:00-8:00 p.m. at Introvigne Funeral Home, Inc., 51 East Main St., Stafford Springs. Memorial donations may be made to the Craig M. Murray Children's Education Fund, c/o Rose Roszczewski, Box 25, Stafford Springs, CT 06076.

Posted on 07 May 2008 @ 14:05 by Tom Alessi

Website layout problems

To those of you who were not seeing the website properly in the past few days; I have fixed the problem.

It had to do with older versions of Internet Explorer not unterstanding the HTML code. If you had a problem, may I suggest upgrading your Internet Explorer to the latest version (it's FREE).

Better yet, go to Firefox.com and download Firefox 2.x (if is also FREE). Firefox is what I recommend. It works a LOT better than MS IE because it has fewer bugs and quirks.

Posted on 06 May 2008 @ 07:05 by Tom Alessi

Court Date Set for Belltown vs. Stamford

EXCLUSIVE: According to the State of CT Judicial Website the court date for the Belltown Injunction Hearing against Stamford and Mayor Dan Malloy for breaking the charter has been set for May 13, 2008. Belltown has applied for an Injunction based of the RUSTICI vs MALLOY case. The case will be heard in Bridgeport court.

Court Docket FBT-CV-08-4024530-S

Posted on 30 Apr 2008 @ 22:04 by Tom Alessi

Greenwich taking appications for Entry-Level Firefighter

The Town of Greenwich, CT is accepting applications for Firefighter. Starting pay is $47,819 - $49,254 (7/1/08) and applications must be in by June 6,2008. Current CPAT card is required to take the written exam.

CLICK HERE for a direct link to the 18 page application packet

Posted on 24 Apr 2008 @ 16:04 by Tom Alessi

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