PHOTOS: A man from East Hartford has died after a crash and vehicle fire in Hebron on Sunday morning.
Firefighters and troopers responded to West Street around 9:47 a.m. after getting a report of a vehicle fire.
State police said 20-year-old Anthony Michael Cardello, of East Hartford, was driving south on West Street when he went off of the road and hit a large tree.
After the crash, troopers said Cardello's vehicle caught on fire. Cardello was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Hebron Fire Marshal and Connecticut State Police are investigating. The investigation is active and ongoing.
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A North Haven firefighter who died following a 30-hour shift will be remembered at the national level next month.
Anthony DeSimone, 50, collapsed last summer and later died at a hospital. An autopsy was not conducted to determine his cause of death. However, an announcement Friday from the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation states that he died from a heart attack.
DeSimone was posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
He will be one of 89 firefighters who died in 2023 who will be honored on May 4 and 5 at the 43rd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The weekend will also honor 137 firefighters who died in previous years.
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Crews responded Saturday to simultaneous fires in Stratford, one of which displaced a family of four, according to officials.
Authorities received multiple 911 calls around 1 p.m. about a fire on Freeman Avenue, officials said. Emergency personnel discovered flames coming from a backyard, as well as a house that was 70 percent ablaze, according to the Stratford Fire Department. Several exposed tanks had vented propane, spreading flames to fencing and starting small brush fires, authorities said, adding the blaze was brought under control in about 45 minutes.
Around the same time, a porch fire was reported in the 700 block of Honeyspot Road, according to authorities, who said residents used a portable extinguisher to contain the flames with help from staff at the neighboring Stratford Guns & Ammo.
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