The Plymouth Library is closing at the end of the month.

The Plymouth Library Association website says the last day it will be open is Saturday, June 29. 

“The decision to close was not easy. We would like to thank our patrons who have brought us joy over the years and who we very much appreciate. We will miss you dearly. PLA would not have been the same without you,” the website says.

Because the library is closing, they will be selling all of the books for $5 for a large bag or $3 for a small grocery-store size bag. The sale is cash- only and patrols are urged to bring their own bags.

The library association says some books are specially priced and marked as such.

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It’s difficult to remember every memory from an almost century of life, but a 95-year-old Newington man will never forget his time fighting in World War II.

“I do have a lot of,” John J. Provini said, pausing, during an interview on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. “You know, things that I’ll never forget and things that I want to forget.”

Provini is a proud Navy man.

“There’s me up there in that ship,” he said, pointing to a picture of himself as a teen on the wall. “He’s a good looking guy right?”

The veteran will always remember meeting his lovely wife at a Polish dance in Hartford while he was on leave.

“It was love at first sight. Not for her, but for me,” he said.

He’ll also always remember the war. He’s been sharing more and more stories as he’s grown older, even writing a book a couple of years ago to create a written history of his experience.

“We were told to feel for a pulse. The water was 40 degrees. Who could feel anything right?,” said Provini.

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Provini was there during “Exercise Tiger,” a dry run for D-Day that turned deadly.

“I remember the deck of the ship very vividly was covered with all bodies and we were told to keep quiet and we were told to not talk about it because somehow or another someone messed up,” he said.

That horrific experience made the moments leading up to D-Day even more overwhelming.

“I was sort of a mixture of being scared and being excited and I think one overrode the other and I got through,” he said.

While he won’t admit it, Provini—a neighbor, father and loved one -- is also one of America’s many heroes.

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A 50-year-old mother of five from New Canaan has been missing for over week and her estranged husband and another woman have been arrested in connection to her disappearance.

Here is a look at a timeline of events on the investigation into Jennifer Dulos's disappearance.

On Friday, May 24, Jennifer Dulos dropped her children off at the New Canaan Country School. After that, police said she missed multiple appointments before friends reported her missing around 7 p.m.

Later that day, officers said they found her abandoned black SUV on Lapham Road by Waveny Park.

By Wednesday, May 29, the search for the missing mother intensified at the popular park in New Canaan. That day, officers said they were treating this as a missing person case, while also launching a criminal investigation to determine if Jennifer had been the victim of foul play.

Jennifer's close friend and family spokesperson Carrie Luft spoke with NBC Connecticut and said, "The children are safe and they are doing well given the circumstances. They, of course, miss their mother incredibly."

On Thursday, May 30, six days after Jennifer vanished, police said the search expanded across the state line to a property in Pound Ridge, New York.

NBC Connecticut also obtained court documents from the divorce case of Jennifer and her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos.

In the initial 2017 affidavit, she wrote she was “terrified for (her) family’s safety” and said her “husband has a history of controlling, volatile and delusional behavior.”

But in a court filing from his attorney, Fotis denied those allegations. And the day before being served with divorce papers in June of 2017, he called 911 with his own concerns.

“I’m worried about my wife and kids because they left to go to New York and I haven’t been able to get in touch with them,” Fotis said in a 911 call.

Jennifer moved from their shared home in Farmington to New Canaan around the same time she filed for divorce.

On Friday, May 31, authorities put out a new missing person poster. Officers continued seeking tips from people driving by Waveny Park in New Canaan.

“If you happen to remember anything, just call our tip line. It’s all anonymous,” police said.

By Friday afternoon, state police confirmed the search for clues moved to multiple locations in Hartford including on Milford Street, Albany Avenue, Homestead Avenue and Sigourney Street.

Then on Saturday, June 1, New Canaan Police said they were securing search warrants in their criminal investigation.

On Sunday, June 2, New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski announced Fotis and Michelle Troconis had been arrested in Avon on Saturday night around 11 p.m.

Fotis and Troconis are each facing charges including tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in the first degree, according to authorities.

Both appeared in court on Monday, June 3 and bond was set at $500,000.  If they post bond, they will be subject to GPS monitoring and will be required to turn in their passports.

They have also been ordered to have no contact with each other, with Jennifer Dulos or her family.

Troconis has surrendered her passport and posted bond Monday. She was seen leaving court with a GPS monitoring device on her ankle.

On Tuesday, June 4, state police were at the Materials Inovation Recycling Authority (MIRA), a trash facility in Hartford, in connection with Dulos's disappearance. A source with knowledge of the investigation told NBC Connecticut that state police contacted MIRA on Friday about a garbage truck that made a collection on Tuesday, May 28.

Also on Tuesday, Jennifer Dulos' mother, Gloria Farber, filed a motion in court for custody of the children. At a status hearing Wednesday, there were no changes made in custody. 

On Wednesday, June 5, police executed search warrants properties owned by Fotis Dulos, including his home on Jefferson Crossing in Farmington and a property at 61 Sturburdge Hill Road in New Canaan.

On Thursday, June 6, the attorney representing Fotis Dulos in the divorce and custody dispute filed a motion to withdraw from the case.

The motion, filed Thursday by attorney Micheal Rose, states that considerations other than compensation will prevent the firm from continuing to represent Fotis.

Officers said both the missing person and criminal investigations are active and dynamic.

As the criminal investigation progresses, authorities said additional criminal charges are expected.

Jennifer has not been located and the search for her is ongoing, police added.

New Haven police have arrested a mother accused of leaving her two young children alone in a home Thursday.

According to police, a housing inspector making a routine visit to an apartment on Sherman Avenue called the property manager when they heard a child home but no adult answering the door. When the property manager and inspector went inside the apartment, they found a 4-month-old and a 3-year-old home alone.

A baby and a toddler were taken from the building and put inside a state of Connecticut vehicle that drove away with them.

The mother, identified as 28-year-old Chantell Hamilton, returned when she was called. She told officers she left the kids alone so she could run an errand to court.

Police estimate that the workers were there for at least half an hour before the mother returned.

Hamilton was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and held on a $25,000 bond.

The Department of Children and Families took custody of the children.

The situation upset Bernadette Belton, who says she is the grandmother of some of their siblings.

"The baby is screaming and hollering like that and it make no kinda sense, she did not want to go. She wanted her mother and she wanted her father."

Belton says the two young children taken away have three older siblings. All have the same mother, but different fathers.

One of those fathers, a man who identified himself as Nathan Lewis, was at the scene shortly after the kids were taken away. He said he was not home at the time and was not the one responsible for their care.

No other details were immediately available.

Eleven hours after lawmakers adjourned their regular session and Gov. Ned Lamont told them they had more work to do, he reiterated that during a news conference Thursday morning.

Lamont views the issue of infrastructure spending as critical to his first year as governor and intends to call lawmakers back for a Special Session at some point later in the summer.

"I can tell you that over the course of the next couple weeks we're going to be sitting down with the legislative leaders and finding a way that we get these things moving,” Lamont said, not committing to a date for the session.

Legislative leaders have already passed resolutions calling themselves back into Special Sessions on the issues of school construction, state bonding, and economic development.

Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz (D – Berlin) who failed to bring up a vote for tolls for the second year in a row, said the support is strong for tolls, but isn’t enough to make a difference in the overall debate.

"As far as the 76 votes for tolling, we have that,” Aresimowicz told reporters. “What we don't have is the 76 votes for a tolling plan that the Senate feels comfortable with that would eventually get the governor's signature."

Lamont campaigned on tolling trucks only, similar to how Rhode Island collects revenue for transportation. But just a few weeks into his administration he announced a reversal, wanting to see tolls paid by all cars who drive on some of Connecticut’s busiest highways.

Republicans have been quick to remind Lamont of the flip-flop, and they’ve proposed their own ideas which have been dead on arrival in the General Assembly.

They first proposed a borrowing program or tens of billions of Connecticut taxpayer dollars, with the intention of receiving matching funds from the federal government. They later scaled back that plan and offered a study proposal to see which bridges required the greatest need. Lamont has said neither plan is adequate.

At this point, Rep. Vincent Candelora, the Deputy Minority Leader in the House, is hoping the GOP is included in all of the conversations leading up to the Special Session, whenever it happens.

"The budget currently as it stands, the transportation fund is solvent and I think we need to continue to look at how we fund that transportation,” Rep. Candelora (R – North Branford) said. “Each party has their own ideas where we feel very strongly. We don't think we need tolls and we think that dialogue will continue."

Lamont says he’s had multiple lawmakers come up to him and express how difficult it would be for them to vote in the affirmative on tolls.

The governor says he has countered by arguing that a vote to invest in the state is the right thing to do, even if it includes tolls.

"At the end of the day, I'm not going to let people avoid a tough vote because it's the most important thing we can do to get this state moving."

Key Locations in the Jennifer Dulos Investigation

A 50-year-old mother of five from New Canaan has been missing for over a week and her estranged husband and another woman have been arrested in connection to her disappearance. Here is a look at the locations tied to the investigation.

Despite an order from a federal housing agency earlier this year that all tenants of Hartford’s beleaguered Barbour Garden apartments be relocated, a HUD spokesperson said Thursday that 59 families are still living at the complex.

Residents in two of the four buildings are facing a new hurdle: raw sewage. Officials say it started in building four Tuesday night and spread to building three on Wednesday.

“They told us that the water would be off until 6 p.m. and it turned out that we had to leave,” said Gerald Parker, who was among the 29 families evacuated at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

“It was an emergency. You had to leave ASAP,” added his neighbor Patricia Little.

The city gave the property owner, Martin Rothman of Adar Hartford Realty, LLC 24 hours to fix the back-up and when that didn’t happen, says it ordered the evacuation.

Little said she knew something wasn’t right when she stepped out into her hallway on Wednesday.

“It smelled like a sewer coming out of my building, coming out my door,” she recalled. “I mean oh my God, now this. What else do we have to go through? It’s not even fair to us.”

The problems at this Section Eight housing complex have been well-chronicled, from mold and mice to broke fire alarms and blocked exits.

“We have fleas in our house from the dead cats in the basement,” said Parker.

The owners, who were taking $750,000 a year from the federal government for this property, lost their HUD contract after the buildings scored just a nine out of 100 on a recent inspection. HUD has been working to relocate residents in the 68 occupied units since April 1. So far, the agency says just nine families have received placement with four more signing leases.

HUD Public Affairs Officer for the New England Region told NBC Connecticut News, “We have set August 19 as the target date to relocate the residents of Barbour Gardens. As that date gets closer they will make a determination on a case by case basis whether that date needs to be pushed further out.”

A city spokesperson says the 29 families evacuated due to the back-up were brought to a Hartford hotel last night.

“Everything’s good. I’m not upset or anything like that because this is the best thing that could have happened,” said Parker of the situation at the hotel. “It’s a good thing they’re doing what they’re doing by giving us somewhere else to live.”

The tenants could be there for up to six days, according to one city official. The city is picking up the tab for both the plumbing work on the property and the hotel rooms. A city spokesperson said the city will try to get reimbursed.

Parker hopes to stay at the hotel until he gets a new permanent place to live and says he’s working to move out for good.

“I don’t want to come back, I really don’t,” he said of Barbour Garden.

Although Stacy Lentz is only 49 years old, she has become a champion for the iconic symbol of a historical movement that started nearly a year before she was born.

When Lentz,“fresh off the boat from a cornfield in Kansas,” walked into her first lesbian bar in 1994, she had no idea "that LGBTQ people actually kind of existed in my world,” let alone that she would later co-own New York City's Stonewall Inn.

The historic bar was the site of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, where LGBTQ residents protested against the police raids that often stifled their freedom of expression. 

Lentz was among 50 upcoming change-makers and historical figures in the LGBTQ rights movement that NBC News featured in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots. 

Residents in the Linbrook Road area of West Hartford said they hoped when the sewage backup situation resolved itself last fall, that would be the end of their worries.

It turns out for many of them, more issues came along, so they called a meeting at town hall Thursday to try to get a resolution.

“We can’t sit back and wait on our heels,” said Terry Conlon.

Conlon said his North Main Street home has a whole new set of water-related isues since the sewage backup in his neighborhood last fall.

Water covered his basement floor last October as many in his community experienced the same sewage water problems after a sewage blockage led to major flooding.

“Now we’re finding out since they’ve lined that sewer, and they’re taking the storm water out it now backing up into neighbor’s yards, in our basements,” Conlon told NBC Connecticut. “Sump pumps are going off around the clock.”

He’s now among the Linbrook neighborhood residents who called a meeting at town hall. They say since October, new challenges keep erupting. HE’S “ The reason that we’re here is not to complain about the little things that are happening… but to come up with a long term resolution that’s going to involve the town, the MDC and all the neighbors working together,” said neighbor Rick Bush.

At Thursday’s meeting, leaders from The Metropolitan District Commission, whose CEO says they’ve already ypaid out $1 million in claims for last year’s episode, said a long-term fix to the neighborhood’s problems don’t rest solely with them.

“What’s the real solution to solving the long term solution in MDC. It’s not building bigger sewer pipes. It’s getting the storm water out,” CEO Scott Jellison said. “That responsibility to get that storm out of our sewer is the town of West Hartford’s.”

The town has begun a drainage study to try to understand the full scope of the trouble, and eventually come up with a fix, though it won’t be a quick process.

“We can’t rush out and spend lots of money on something that’s not going to work,” said Town Manager Matt Hart. “We need to first determine what the causes are and what the appropriate fixes are.”

Hart said they should have conclusive results from all phases of the drainage study within two years. Then they can chart out a path to a more permanent solution.

Days following Netflix’s announcement that it would “rethink” its investment in Georgia after the state’s governor signed into law a ban on virtually all abortions, Connecticut’s governor said he has reached out to Netflix, Disney, and AMC to tell them that Connecticut is a “perfect location” for them to conduct business.  

Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz wrote letters addressed to each of the companies’ executives and said that Connecticut has nationally competitive production tax incentives that are ideal for companies like theirs. 

"We applaud Netflix's recent condemnation of new legislation enacted in Georgia to severely curb women's reproductive rights. We wholeheartedly agree with and support your position, and know that this called into question the viability of doing business in that state," the letter to Netflix says.

“States that are adopting legislation that severely curb women’s reproductive rights are sending shockwaves across the country, including in the business community, and rightly so,” Lamont said in a statement. “Here in Connecticut, I am particularly proud that support for protecting the ability of women to make informed decisions about their health and bodies is not only strong, but it is also bipartisan. We will continue to do everything in our power to protect women’s healthcare rights, and stand in solidarity with businesses who feel the same. We wholeheartedly agree with and support the position of these companies and urge them to consider Connecticut.” 

“Connecticut recently ranked third among states for working mothers,” Bysiewicz said in a statement. “In addition to offering some of the best childcare and professional opportunities, we understand that women’s issues are economic issues. Our state strongly protects the right of women to make their own reproductive healthcare choices so that they can best support their careers and their families.” 

The statement from the governor’s office said several film, television and digital media companies have relocated and expanded in Connecticut over the last 15 years, including Blue Sky Studios, NBCUniversal (sports group and syndicated television), CBS Sports, ITVAmerica, ESPN, WWE and A&E. 

NBC Universal is the parent company of NBC Connecticut.

Read the letter to Netflix here.  

Read the letter to Disney here.

Read the letter to AMC here.

Police are responding to a crash involving a school bus and a car in the 5000 block of Durham Road in Guilford.

An ambulance has responded, but no information was immediately available on injuries.

It’s also not clear if any students are on the bus.

The road is closed.

Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old mother of five, has now been missing for two weeks and the search for information on what happened to her spans New Canaan, Farmington and Hartford.

In the last two weeks, New Canaan police have received more than 225 tips regarding the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos and nearly 70 people have responded to their request for surveillance video.

State Police have been searching at Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford for evidence in the disappearance.

In a news release, they said that they will “continue to diligently comb through mountains of trash at the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford for evidence in search of evidence pertaining to the investigation.”

State police have also been at the Farmington home of 51-year-old Fotis Dulos, the missing woman’s estranged husband, after obtaining search warrants.

Police also searched a New Canaan home connected to Fotis Dulos’ construction company.

Jennifer Dulos was last seen on the morning of May 24 when she dropped her children off at New Canaan Country School. She was reported missing that night after failing to show up for doctor appointments in New York City. Her friends tried to contact her and became concerned when they were unable to reach her.

Court documents say officers who went to her home after she was reported missing found blood in her garage and “evidence of attempts to clean the crime scene.”

READ THE COURT DOCUMENTS

Police have arrested Fotis Dulos and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, in connection with the missing person case. 

They have both been charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in the first degree in connection to the missing person case.

Fotis remains in police custody and has been ordered to have no contact with Jennifer’s family or his children.

New Canaan police said search warrants have been served on properties owned by Fotis Dulos.

An NBC Connecticut crew near Fotis Dulos’ home on Jefferson Crossing in Farmington Wednesday night reported at least six police vehicles at the residence as well as several state police detectives with K9s.

State police confirmed they also searched a property at 61 Sturbridge Hill Road in New Canaan but are not releasing details of the searches.

According to court documents, surveillance cameras picked up video of a pickup similar to one owned by Fotis Dulos, that shows the truck stopping more than 30 times over a four-mile stretch of Albany Avenue in Hartford and a man putting garbage in trash cans. The documents also say that state police found several bags they say contained clothing and a kitchen sponge that were covered in Jennifer Dulos’ blood.

State Police have also been searching at Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford for evidence in the disappearance. In a news release issued Wednesday night, they said that they will “continue to diligently comb through mountains of trash at the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford for evidence in search of evidence pertaining to the investigation.”

A worker inside the facility told NBC Connecticut that as of Thursday afternoon there were more than two dozen state troopers inside the building continuing to search through the garbage.

As the search for Jennifer continues, her mother, Gloria Farber, has filed for custody of Jennifer and Fotis’ five children but no change was made in custody during a status conference Wednesday.

A hearing will be scheduled on custody.

On Thursday the attorney representing Fotis Dulos in the divorce and custody dispute filed a motion to withdraw from the case.

The motion, filed Thursday by attorney Michael Rose, states that considerations other than compensation will prevent the firm from continuing to represent Fotis.

The head of school at New Canaan Country School released a statement on Thursday about the disappearance.

"As a school that believes deeply in the sanctity of childhood and as a tight-knit community of people who believe in our common humanity, we are heartbroken about Jennifer Dulos’s disappearance. We know Jennifer as a devoted mother, a dedicated member of our parent community and an active volunteer. Over the last two years, she had a daily presence on campus, and her kindness and warmth have been palpable to everyone who has come into contact with her. We continue to support the five beautiful Dulos children, who are beloved members of the New Canaan Country School community, along with all of our NCCS community during this unbearably difficult time. We thank the news media for helping us to protect the privacy of our students and focus on their school activities during this time when routine and normalcy is so vitaL," Head of School Aaron Cooper, New Canaan Country School, said in a statement.

Jupiter will be closer to Earth on Monday than at any other time of the year, offering skywatchers a chance to see the planet at its biggest and brightest, NBC News reported. 

A pair of binoculars or a small telescope should make it possible to see Jupiter's largest moons and perhaps the bands of clouds that cover the gas giant. The planet can also be seen with the naked eye. 

"Go outside a little while after the sun has set, look toward the east, and it will be the brightest thing," Irene Pease, an amateur astronomer in Brooklyn, New York, and president of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, said of Jupiter. "You might think it's a plane, but it won't move like a plane or blink like a plane."

A Hamden woman is accused of leaving a dog inside a car that reached 120 degrees and has been charged with animal cruelty.

Police said they were called to the parking lot of a supermarket at 2335 Dixwell Ave. on June 2 after someone reported that a “small Bichon mix” dog was left inside a parked vehicle and was panting excessively.

An officer responded and an announcement was made to try and locate the owner, but that did not work, so the Hamden Fire Department was called in.

While firefighters were trying to get into the car, 47-year-old Shi Zhuhong, of Hamden, returned with “a cart full of groceries,” according to police.

Firefighters determined that the inside of the vehicle had reached 120 degrees while the exterior of the vehicle was 140 degrees, according to police.

Police said the dog was left inside the vehicle for approximately 45 minutes.

Zhuhong was charged with cruelty to animals.

She was released on a written promise to appear and she is scheduled to appear in Meriden Superior Court on June 17.

Hamden police urge people not to leave animals unattended if the heat is extreme and not to leave animals unattended for more than 10 minutes.

They urge people to park the vehicle in an area where there is shade, use a screen to block the rays of the sun, leave a bowl of water inside of the vehicle.

If you see an animal locked inside of a hot vehicle, write down the make, model and license plate number of the vehicle.

If there is a business nearby, try to locate and notify a store employee or security personnel and contact your local police department or animal control division. 

Connecticut Open House Day is a time to celebrate the state and it will be here soon.

June 8 is Connecticut Open House Day and there are many opportunities to explore areas of the state that are unfamiliar or revisit the cities and towns you love.

More than 150 attractions, museums, galleries and organizations will participate this year, from Ashford to Woodbury, and offer free or discounted admission, giveaways, hands-on activities and more.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center will celebrate Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birthday with free admission and several family activities. 

The New England Carousel Museum in Bristol is offering free admission from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. 

The PEZ Visitor Center in Orange is offering free admission and PEZ girl and PEZ candy tablet mascot will greet guests throughout the day with additional surprise. 

The Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry in Storrs is offering free guided tours of the current exhibitions at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. 

KidsPlay Children’s Museum in Torrington is offering half-price admission from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. 

Some restaurants and vineyards are also offering deals.

See the 2019 Connecticut Open House website for more information and to see what locations near you are participating. 

All the Connecticut swimming areas and beaches that the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection tests are open.

Shoreline:

• Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison: Open
• Rocky Neck State Park, Niantic: Open
• Sherwood Island State Park, Westport: Open
• Silver Sands State Park, Milford: Open

Lakes and Ponds:

• Black Rock State Park, Watertown: Open
• Burr Pond State Park, Torrington: Open
• Chatfield Hollow State Park, Killingworth: Open
• Cockaponset State Forest (Pattaconk), Chester: Open
• Day Pond State Park, Colchester: Open
• Gardner Lake State Park , Salem: Open
• Gay City State Park, Hebron: Open
• Hopeville Pond State Park, Griswold: Open
• Indian Well State Park, Shelton: Open
• Lake Waramaug State Park, Kent: Open
• Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Pomfret: Open
• Mount Tom State Park, Litchfield: Open
• Pachaug State Forest (Green Falls Pond), Voluntown: Open
• Quaddick State Park, Thompson: Open
• Squantz Pond State Park, New Fairfield: Open
• Stratton Brook State Park, Simsbury: Open
• Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middlefield: Open
• Wharton Brook State Park, Wallingford: Open

The husband of the injured hiker who spun uncontrollably in a rescue helicopter's harness this week said she "thought she was going to die," NBC News reported.

Katalin Metro, 74, was airlifted out of Arizona's Piestewa Park on Tuesday after she broke her nose in a fall, her husband told NBC affiliate KPNX.

George Metro watched from the helicopter as the basket dangling below started spinning wildly with his wife inside. He said she spun 174 times and did deep-breathing exercises to stay conscious.

"The blood was going to her head and eyeballs. The first thing she said was, 'I'm glad I'm alive,'" Metro said from the hospital Thursday. "She thought she was going to die when she was spinning."

A child was thrown from a vehicle during a crash in Bridgeport Thursday night, according to the fire department.

Officials said firefighters responded to the intersection of Fairview and Amsterdam avenues around 7 p.m. Thursday and found the scene of a two-vehicle crash and two injured people.

Three people were in one vehicle, which had just missed hitting a fire hydrant during the crash, and a young child was ejected, according to the fire department.

The child was transported and a woman was removed from the vehicle and transported as well. 

The driver of the other vehicle was out of the car and was not hurt.

Fire officials said his vehicle went through a fence and missed hitting the house at 601 Fairview Avenue.

The lone cadet to die in a violent rollover crash near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point that hurt nearly two dozen others, including two U.S. Army soldiers, has been identified as 22-year-old Christopher Morgan from New Jersey.

Morgan, a law and legal studies major and recruited athlete who was a standout member of the Army wrestling team, died at the scene of Thursday's accident, West Point said Friday. He lived in West Orange and would have graduated from the U.S. Military Academy next year.

"Cadet Morgan was a valued member of the Corps of Cadets and will be missed by all," Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, 60th Superintendent, U. S. Military Academy, said in a statement. "The entire community is ensuring that our cadets are being cared for physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Morgan family."

West Point's wrestling coach described Morgan as a "talented, hardworking and determined athlete who loved his sport."

"Chris had an infectious personality with a smile big enough to fill any room, and a heart big enough to love everyone around him," coach Kevin Ward said. "He made everyone around him better and he will be greatly missed.

A vigil to honor Morgan is planned for Friday night, while a memorial ceremony for the West Point community and private funeral service will be held at the academy next week, West Point said.

Morgan was among 19 cadets being driven by two U.S. Army soldiers early Thursday when their 2.5-ton tactical vehicle somehow veered off Route 293 and rolled over, ending upside-down in a thickly wooded area, around 6:45 a.m. They were heading out as part of a routine training exercise, and officials weren't able to provide any additional details Thursday afternoon on how the accident may have happened. The investigation is ongoing. 

The injured were taken to local hospitals; military personnel said injuries ranged from a facial abrasion to a broken arm, and all were expected to be OK.

Chopper 4 provided a first aerial view of the accident site, which was heavily obscured. The military vehicle was barely visible through the heavy tree cover, but it was clearly flipped, its undercarriage and wheels facing the sky. 

The accident fell on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, as New York state honored about a hundred World War II veterans during a ceremony on Long Island.

Gov. Cuomo called the timing of the deadly accident especially heart-wrenching.

"My heart breaks for all those involved in the tragic training accident at West Point this morning. These courageous cadets and soldiers represent the best of New York State and our country, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for their bravery in choosing to serve our country and protect our freedoms," he said. "On behalf of all New Yorkers, we pray for a speedy recovery for those involved and we share in the sorrow experienced by their loved ones during this extremely difficult time."

President Donald Trump also acknowledged the tragedy, tweeting later Thursday, "So sorry to hear about the terrible accident involving our GREAT West Point Cadets. We mourn the loss of life and pray for the injured. God Bless them ALL!"