Firefighters are responding to Sliders on South Main Street in Southington after a natural gas line inside the building broke, according to a Tweet from the fire department.
Eversource has also responded.
Sliders is at 1219 South Main St. and part of the street is closed.
No additional information is immediately available.
The RWA recommends that customers wait until the water clears before drinking it, showering or washing laundry.
The RWA said it sent crews in the field to identify and isolate the cause. As of 11:50 a.m., the issue was beginning to clear up, according to the water authority.
They said temporarily discolored water comes from naturally occurring minerals in the water that collect in the pipes and are stirred up following an activity that disturbs the direction or rate of flow of water in the water main.
Anyone who is immunocompromised can seek advice from their health care providers about drinking water that is discolored, the authority said.
The authority has posted more on discolored wate here.
A man accused of stealing a safe from a church in Southington in March has been arrested after some help from the state forensic lab.
The burglary at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, at 145 Main St., was reported on March 18. Police said a safe was stolen from the church and property was damaged during the burglary.
Investigators collected evidence and the State of Connecticut Forensic Laboratory contacted detectives Wednesday after identifying Dylan Fournier, 20, of Southington, as a suspect, according to police.
Fournier was charged with burglary in the third degree, criminal mischief in the second degree and larceny in the sixth degree.
He was held on a court-set $50,000 bond and is expected to appear in New Britain Superior Court Friday.
Environmental officials on Friday shared a startling photo of a white shark swimming close to a surfer off a popular Cape Cod beach Friday morning.
In a Facebook post, the Orleans National Resources Office shared the photo, taken by Joe Mault, and said the close encounter happened Friday morning off Nauset Beach.
In the post, the office urged beachgoers to use caution.
"As a reminder to all beach goers we continue into peak season for white shark activity... Please remain vigilant."
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Sharks have been sighted off Cape Cod over 200 times this year, according to the Sharktivity app.
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Want the latest in shark sightings, news and more? Subscribe to NBC10 Boston's Shark Tales podcast, a partnership with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy that takes a deep dive into sharks on Cape Cod.
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When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday.
In the months after the hurricane hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed 125,981 tarps to the island's municipalities. At the same time the agency also provided 59,469 blue roofs, which are temporary roofs professionally installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
At least 30,000 households across the island still live without a roof, former Gov. Rosselló said in May. Until recently the Marquez family was among them, after FEMA denied Matos Marquez's request for help and her insurance company didn't respond.
President Trump has said multiple times that the federal response in Puerto Rico since Maria made landfall on Sept. 20, 2017, has been great, rating it a 10 out of 10. But the island is still waiting for delayed disaster relief funds. Last week, FEMA ended restrictions they had placed in July over Puerto Rico to manage recovery funds amid the government's crisis that ultimately led to the governor's resignation along with members of his cabinet. Overall, Congress has allocated $42.8 billion, while the island has only received $14 billion so far.
In the meantime, organizations and private citizens have taken charge of reconstruction efforts in the wake of one of the country's worst natural disasters, with an official death toll of 2,975.
"They have been our angels," Matos Marquez said about the nonprofit organization "Techos Pa' Mi Gente" (Roof for my People), which has been rebuilding her home since mid-July. The couple had been living on the first floor of their house, since the second floor was completely destroyed after they lost their roof.
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"Techos Pa' Mi Gente's" founder Amarilis González was a schoolteacher who, in the month after the storm struck, saw the same three houses without a roof on her way to work everyday.
Out of frustration, she took to Facebook and wrote about how she wished she could help. Messages started pouring in despite poor cell service across the island. She followed up on Oct. 9, 2017: "DONATE A TARP Do you want to help Puerto Rico? Thousands of families need a tarp to cover their houses... I have decided to take a step forward and request my fellow worldwide friends to donate tarps."
"I received tarps everyday," added González. Once she had enough tarps she asked in another post for volunteers to help her start putting up these temporary roofs.
"We installed hundreds of tarps," González said. She would go on to quit her teaching job to fully dedicate herself to the project. For the first three months, "Techos Pa' Mi Gente" only worked on installing tarps. As time passed by González changed her focus to home reconstruction.
Through donations from private citizens and companies, she and her team of volunteers started to rebuild houses with the help of people locally and nationally.
"Once a month, we have carpenters from the U.S. helping us out," she said.
González and her volunteers take seven days to rebuild roofs when volunteers arrive on the island exclusively to work on the project. If using local volunteers, it might take about a month, since they can only work on weekends due to the volunteers' day jobs. González has experts who guide her and the nonprofit follows guidelines from the Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico, to make sure these houses are more resistant to any other potential threat.
González said that due to the bad state of the houses on the island, the organization spends at least $5,000 for each repair with money that comes from donations. Some repairs cost more.
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Data obtained by The New York Times last year says two-thirds of the people in Puerto Rico who were granted help by FEMA to repair their homes received less than $3,000.
Matos Marquez has been grateful for Techos Pa' Mi Gente's help. "When I went upstairs and saw I had a roof and walls I kissed them and said 'Thank you God,'" she said tearfully.
Seeing the reaction of people she's helped has inspired González to stay committed. "This project can't stop," she said.
"Techos Pa' Mi Gente" has helped 48 families so far and has almost a thousand requests of people in need.
Iris Torrado Alvarado is one of those thousands waiting for help. For Torrado Alvarado, living under a tarp has become her new normal in Coamo, located in the south of the island. FEMA gave her two blue tarps, for her house and her mother's house, and $500 to cover food lost during the emergency. She wasn't granted any other help from the agency because she didn't meet the requirements needed. Both houses were under Torrado Alvarado's mom name. Following FEMA’s requirements, you can’t get assistance for two properties that are under the same name.
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Since the storm, Torrado Alvarado has been looking for ways to fix her house and her mother's, where she now lives, due to the poorer conditions of her own home. The 49-year-old woman lives on the second floor of her mother's three story house.
"It's been so hard... I feel helpless," said Torrado Alvarado, who not only is struggling due to the destruction, but is also grieving her mother's death in March 2018. Although Torrado Alvarado's mother had cancer, she says that the emotional toll experienced during the aftermath of the hurricane played a big role in her declining health.
"I'm sure that seeing our homes destroyed advanced her death," she said.
Two years after Maria, Torrado Alvarado still has the tarp on the third floor of her mom’s house, one patched together by her husband because the original FEMA tarp broke. This has caused leaks on the floor were Torrado Alvarado and her husband sleep.
Worried about the thousands of Puerto Ricans who are living in similar conditions, Maricarmen Más Rodríguez, a member of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives, said she wrote a letter in June to FEMA asking the agency to replace damaged tarps in Puerto Rico. She said she never received a response.
A FEMA spokesperson told NBC that they received the letter and that it's under review.
"This situation has to be taken care of," Más Rodríguez said, adding that what Puerto Ricans have lived through is unfair. "Since we are not a state we've been discriminated and we deserve an equal treatment."
Más Rodríguez has referred people to local organizations that are assisting Puerto Ricans in need.
Aside from Techo Pa' Mi Gente, other organizations working to rebuild homes in Puerto Rico include Habitat of Humanity Puerto Rico, Enactus Puerto Rico, Ricky Martin's Foundation and Rehace.
Also among the groups is CUNY Service Corps based out the City University of New York. Melissa Fernández, the director of Service Corps Puerto Rico, has traveled three times to the island with 500 students who have volunteered to help in the rebuilding process. Some of the municipalities they've operated in include Loiza, Orocovis, Arroyo, Rio Grande and Vega Baja.
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As a Puerto Rican, Fernández feel especially drawn to the project.
"It's been one of the most important and meaningful experiences of my life," she said. "It makes me want to work even harder to make sure everyone has a roof over their heads."
Make sure to look up Friday night - weather conditions will be ideal to get a glimpse of the International Space Station.
According to NASA, ISS is the third brightest object in the sky visible to the naked eye. It should look like an airplane or a very bright star moving across the sky. The lights don’t flash but the station moves fast, flying at 17,500 miles (28,000 km) per hour). It circles the Earth every 90 minutes.
ISS will first appear in the southwest sky around 7:59 p.m. and the flyover will last about five minutes.
The current crew includes NASA astronauts Christina H. Koch, “Nick” Tyler N. Hague, and Dr. Andrew R. Morgan, Russian Federation cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Alexander Skvortsov, and ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano.
Learn more about the International Space Station and opportunities to spot it by clicking here.
When 10 of the Democratic candidates for president gather in Iowa on Friday evening, it will be at a forum to address issues that are top of mind for one of their party’s most reliable constituencies: the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, NBC News reports.
The candidates — Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Sestak, Elizabeth Warren and Marianne Williamson — will take the stage at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, where they’ll be quizzed by Lyz Lenz, a columnist for The Gazette; Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy at One Iowa; and Zach Stafford, editor-in-chief of The Advocate. The event is being sponsored by GLAAD, One Iowa, The Gazette and The Advocate, and it will be hosted by transgender actor and activist Angelica Ross, who’s best known for her role in the hit FX series “Pose.”
The last time such an event took place was in November 2007, with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama among the participants. In the 12 years since, the country has undergone a revolution in terms of LGBTQ rights and acceptance.
NOTE: NBC 5 is live at the scene. Watch in the player above.
A massive police presence converged on Woodfield Mall after video showed a car driving through the inside of the popular suburban shopping center.
The Schaumburg Fire Dept. confirmed it was responding to an incident at the mall Friday afternoon, fire officials said.
A video posted to social media indicated an SUV drove through the mall. Police have not yet responded to NBC 5's request for comment.
Sky 5 footage from the scene showed crowds and a heavy police presence outside the mall.
Witnesses reported the mall was on lockdown and customers were hiding in the back of stores.
Check back for updates on this developing story.
Antonio Brown was released from the New England Patriots Friday, the team said in a statement.
"Thank you for the opportunity @Patriots #GoWinIt," Brown tweeted.
The team released a short statement announcing Brown was released: "The New England Patriots are releasing Antonio Brown. We appreciate the hard work of many people over the past 11 days, but we feel that it is best to move in a different direction at this time."
Earlier Friday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick walked out of a news conference after reporters asked seven Antonio Brown-related questions in a row.
Brown's short time with the team — he was signed two weeks ago — was marked by controversy, including a civil lawsuit filed in federal court accusing him of rape. Brown has denied that allegation.
This is a breaking news story that will be updated.
They say no matter how old she gets, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.
For Kyley Reed, of Milford, this is one of those times. Her mother, Dorothy Franco-Reed, a 1984 Olympian turned ESPN commentator, is living with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Now 61 years old, Dorothy was diagnosed with the disease at just 59. Kyley said she started noticing signs in her mother about four years earlier, like forgetfulness and emotional changes.
“Obviously you don’t want to get that news, there’s a lot dread behind it … but to me it was like, we had an explanation,” Kyley, a Connecticut Women's Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee and Jonathan Law High School teacher, said of the moment she learned her mother’s diagnosis. “Finally, it’s not your fault that you’re acting this way and forgetting things. But now there’s room for more dread just because we don’t know how it’s going to progress.”
Of the 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, just 5 percent have the early onset type, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Dorothy’s comes decades ahead of when her own mother, also named Dorothy, developed the disease in her mid-80s. Dorothy and husband, Tom Reed, cared for the elder Dorothy in her final years of life. She died at 94.
“We had her come live with us,” Dorothy recalls. “Was it difficult? Yeah. Was it worth it? Absolutely.”
As a daughter and caretaker, Dorothy has seen what the future could hold. As a mother and patient, she’s determined to fight. She works out regularly, stays social, and keeps the relentless determination she was known for on the Team USA Handball court.
“Persistence wears out resistance. You know? You just keep resisting. And you get there. No matter what the obstacles are, or the barriers people put up, you just gotta keep going,” she said.
And with an uncertain road ahead, Kyley and Dorothy have decided the only way to navigate it is together. They’ve decided to pursue a “bucket list” of sorts, making as many memories as possible while making every day count.
It began with a coast-to-coast road trip last summer -- 50 days, 30-something states, countless memories.
“I wanted to live in that road trip,” Kyley said. “Everything about it. I wanted it to stay there. It was perfect.”
There is no cure for Alzheimer’s presently. Treatments can slow the progression and Dorothy is participating in some clinical trials.
“Mother Nature will take its course,” she acknowledges, “but I’m going to defy that as long as I can and I’d give that advice to anybody,” she said.
She knows the memories may fade over time, but a love as deep as the one shared between Dorothy and Kyley?
That’s something Alzheimer’s can’t touch.
A firefighter was taken to the hospital during a house fire in Waterbury Friday.
Firefighters were called to the three-story home on Linden Street around 2 p.m. When they arrived they found heavy fire on the first floor which extended into the walls of the upper floors. Witnesses said black smoke was visible from several streets away.
During the call one firefighter was taken to the hospital. Fire officials did not comment on that person’s condition, but said the situation was not life-threatening. No other injuries were reported.
No one was home at the time, and crews were able to prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings. It took crews about an hour to get the blaze under control.
There is severe damage to the building.
It was not immediately clear how many people live in the home.
The fire marshal is on scene and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
The attorney for a high ranking New Haven firefighter says he plans to sue his colleagues, including Fire Chief John Alston.
Assistant Fire Chief Orlando Marcano accuses members of the department of actively working to ruin his reputation and prevent him from being considered for future promotions.
Several members of the New Haven Fire Department have been slapped with a lawsuit by one of their own. The suit alleges that four members of the department actively sought to ruin the reputation of Assistant Fire Chief Orlando Marcano.
The 21-page complaint centers on the hierarchy within the department and names another assistant fire chief, a former administrative assistant, and the union president as defendants in the suit.
According to the complaint, Orlando “Woody” Marcano is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages above $15,000 from several of his current coworkers and one former city employee.
In 2017, Marcano was sworn in as the assistant chief of administration, the number two person in the chain of command, according to the complaint. At the time, the complaint alleges that Assistant Chief of Operation Mark Vendetto, number three in charge for the New Haven fire department, accused Marcano of cheating his way to the top and proceeded to make him appear incompetent and unworthy of future promotions by spreading false accusations.
According to the complaint, Vendetto, made statements at union meetings that the two were equal in rank, even though Vendetto’s position was considered lower than Marcano’s. Vendetto has not responded to our request for comment.
Union President Frank Ricci is also named in the complaint for making the same allegations and allegedly threatening to get Marcano fired. The lawsuit lists nine grievances Ricci filed against Marcano including the mishandling of personnel matters and money, all of which Marcano says are false and were made up to make him look bad.
In a statement Ricci said, “This is an attack on the rights of all New Haven firefighters. This is a frivolous lawsuit that is in retaliation for representing my membership and exposing the truth in that endeavor. We will defend this action vigorously and are confident that we will be vindicated.”
Marcano is also suing his boss, Chief John Alston, for negligent supervision, saying he did not taking action against Vendetto and Ricci and allowed them to undermine and interfere with his job. Alston said it’s premature to comment on the suit.
“The allegations set forth a pattern of activity over a long period of time that was leveled against Orlando Marcano that we have alleged wrongfully interfered with his employment relationship with the City of New Haven, so as to embarrass Assistant Chief Marcano, make him appear incompetent, ineffective, and undesirable for promotion so that others would be promoted over him. We intend to pursue these allegations fully in a Court of competent jurisdiction against all defendants who have been sued in an individual capacity,” said Marcano’s attorney, Patricia Cofrancesco, in a statement.
Cofrancesco pointed out that the defendants are being sued as individuals and not in their official capacity as New Haven employees. She said that means they won’t have city attorneys to defend them, and they’ll have to pay for any damages awarded out of their own pockets and not with taxpayer dollars or union dues.
As the number two and three in command, Marcano and Vendetto could expect to be promoted to chief in the future. The chief serves at the discretion of the mayor. Current mayor Toni Harp lost last week’s primary and has not said whether she plans to run in November.
Bridgeport police are looking for a woman who faces charges in connection with the murder of her husband.
Police said they have an arrest warrant for 35-year-old Larise King charging her in with conspiracy to commit murder and criminal liability for the acts of another the death of her husband Dathan Gray. Gray was shot and killed on July 27 while standing in front of his home on Newfield Avenue.
King agreed to surrender to police, but never showed up, police said.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Bridgeport Police Department.
A series of protests took place around the country Friday to express concern about climate change. Organizers of “Global Climate Strike” say protesters from 156 countries participated.
In Connecticut an estimated crowd of 1,000 rallied at the State Capitol.
UConn Freshman Sena Wazer, just 15 years old, was among those leading the charge. Wazer, an environmental science major, helped co-organize today’s rally.
“Our main ask for today is that the governor declare a climate emergency for Connecticut,” she said.
Wazer says a 2018 Intergovernmental panel on climate change report, was her wake up call to get involved.
“Their report said we need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and that 2 degrees warming would be catastrophic,” she explained adding, “we have 12 years to accomplish these goals.”
Wazer would like to see Gov. Ned Lamont stop carbon emitting pollutions by December 31, 2030 and ensure climate education continues in schools.
“I’d like him to know that young people expect and need climate action from him because our future is on the line,” she said.
While the governor did not attend, he did issue this statement:
“Climate change is an acute and significant threat to our air, water, health and overall quality of life here in Connecticut and across the globe. It is irresponsible to push these issues down the road for future generations to tackle and solve. That’s why we must act now. Connecticut is leading the charge in charting a path toward a cleaner, healthier community through our commitment to a zero-carbon electric grid by 2040 and to alternative energy sources, like the bipartisan support for offshore wind.”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) was in attendance.
“The reason a 15-year-old is leading this movement is because she and these young people will inherit the planet that we are disgracing,” he said.
While Friday's rally attracted people of all ages, it was heavily populated by students. A number of Connecticut high school students walked out on class to demonstrate their concerns.
“My generation actually cares about this issue because it personally impacts us,” said Molly Ma, a student from New Canaan’s St.Luke’s High School.
Ma was a co-organizer at the school which sent students to New York City and Hartford to be heard.
“We believe the only way for people our age to have a future is to rise up and protest what’s going on,” added St. Luke’s student Laura Mercedes.
Windsor’s Loomis Chaffee High School sent 115 students.
“The problem with climate change, is an existential one for humanity,” said Loomis Science teacher Neil Chaudhary. “The inaction of human civilizations is leading us down a disastrous path.”
But what about missing school?
“It’s not that we don’t care about our education,” said Loomis Chaffee student Freya Rich. “I think this is part of our education.”
A person diagnosed with EEE earlier this season has died and a second case of the disease has been confirmed in Connecticut this season.
The Department of Public Health confirmed an adult from East Lyme who was hospitalized with Eastern Equine Encephalitis in late August has died.
DPH also confirmed a second human case has been confirmed in an adult resident of Old Lyme.
EEE is a rare disease, but 30 percent of people who catch it die, and survivors typically suffer ongoing neurological problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This marks the third human case of EEE ever reported in Connecticut, according to DPH. The first case was in fall 2013.
Symptoms of EEE include headache, high fever, chills and vomiting. It may then progress with disorientation, seizures and coma.
There is no specific treatment for EEE.
The disease has been found in mosquitos in 12 towns, including Chester, Haddam, Hampton, Groton, Killingworth, Ledyard, Madison, North Stonington, Plainfield, Shelton, Stonington, and Voluntown. Horses have tested positive for EEE in Colchester, Columbia, Salen, Sterling and Voluntown.
Health officials have also confirmed the first human case of West Nile Virus in Connecticut this season in a resident of Danbury. DPH said that person is recovering.
West Nile Virus is more common than EEE and has been detected in the state every year since 1999.
West Nile has been detected in mosquitoes in 23 towns in Connecticut, including Bridgeport, Chester, Darien, East Haven, Greenwich, Groton, Hartford, Manchester, Middlefield, Monroe, New Canaan, New Haven, Newington, North Haven, North Stonington, Norwalk, South Windsor, Stamford, Stonington, Voluntown, West Hartford, West Haven, Wethersfield. A horse in Easton has also tested positive for the virus.
DPH has urged residents to avoid outdoor activities from dusk to dawn, when mosquitoes are most active, and take measures to avoid mosquito bites. State officials said the mosquitoes that carry the viruses are active until the first heavy frost.
There have been 10 human cases of EEE in neighboring Massachusetts and three in Rhode Island, health officials said.
The Secretary of the State is calling for an investigation into Bridgeport’s mayoral primary.
It’s been less than two weeks since Bridgeport’s mayoral primary, with Mayor Joe Ganim winning narrowly against the state Sen. Marilyn Moore.
Now Secretary of the State Denise Merrill wants the State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) to take a closer look.
This comes following a Connecticut Post article about irregularities with absentee ballots in Bridgeport, including some voters who say they were pressured to vote for Ganim.
Merrill sent a letter to SEEC asking members to look into the specific allegations, since her office has limited jurisdiction and no investigatory powers.
“It needs to be looked into and I'm glad they're doing it. And we don't want that in our city. We don't want it by anybody's campaign,” Ganim said.
Both Ganim and Moore say they welcome the news but split when it comes to who may be at fault.
Moore was unavailable to speak on camera Friday, but her campaign released a statement pointing out that Ganim won most of the absentee ballots and that “the Ganim team clearly violated people’s voting rights, which is also a matter for the federal government.”
“We don't want irregularities in our city in our election process. I think the irony is we've looked at this and sources in the media told us a lot of these operatives are with the loser's campaign,” Ganim said.
SEEC declined to comment.
In addition to pushing for an investigation, the Secretary of the State said they’ll activate a corps of volunteer attorneys to ensure we are able to respond to any additional issues that may arise within the city of Bridgeport during the November General Election.
Moore will be a write-in candidate on the November ballot.
Barron Hilton, the hotelier and philanthropist who chaired the Hilton hotel chain, died on Thursday in Los Angeles of natural causes at the age of 91, it was announced Friday.
Hilton took over Hilton Hotels Corporation as president and CEO in 1966 after succeeding his father, Conrad Hilton, who founded the hotel empire, NBC News reported. Barron Hilton was also a founding owner of the now-Los Angeles Chargers NFL football team.
Hilton Hotels said in a statement that “today the world of hospitality mourns for one of the greats.”
"Barron Hilton was an incredible family man, business leader and philanthropist. From his leadership of our company for more than three decades, to the transformative work he led with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for many years, Barron was a man unlike any other,” Hilton Hotels’ current president and CEO, Christopher J. Nassetta, said in a statement.
UPS is gearing up for the busy holiday season and plans to hire more than 3,000 people in Connecticut.
The local positions include seasonal and permeant work. The company is looking for 1,850 driver helpers, 688 package handlers, 340 casual drivers, 131 personal vehicle drivers, 90 feeder drivers and 33 part-time supervisors.
The company has facilities in Hartford, Windsor Locks, Windsor, Bozrah, Waterford, Hamden, Orange, Watertown, Brookfield, Stratford and Norwalk.
Pay starts at $10.55 per hour. Some positions include a program to earn money toward college expenses.
For more information and to apply, click here.
Other companies hiring locally include JCPenney and Target.
This weekend is expected to be perfect for the beach, but, if you’re headed to some beaches you may not see any lifeguards on duty.
West Haven and state beaches will not have life-guards on duty because those positions are seasonal and run from Memorial Day to the Labor Day weekend.
However, Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven will have lifeguards on duty as an extra precaution.
Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) released this statement to NBC Connecticut:
“Our lifeguard season runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day to capture the traditional summer months, which is a typical lifeguard schedule throughout the northeast at public swimming beaches and pools.”
DEEP also offered the following safety recommendations:
The extended weather is perfect for businesses like Savin Rock’s Surf Shop.
George Curtis is the co-owner and is excited about the spike in temperatures.
"It's nice that we're getting a chance to go through at least the end of October,” said Curtis. “If the next couple of weeks are going to have his mild weather, it’ll be great for us.”
Kristina Lawrence decided to treat herself with a trip to the beach for the last weekend of summer.
"It's been lovely out here,” said Lawrence. “I really wanted to come here to clear my mind, and be able to refresh my body.”
Lawrence says she has a few concerns after hearing that some beaches won’t have lifeguards.
"Not having any lifeguards is a little bit of a concern maybe they should have like two just to play it safe,” said Lawrence. “I worry about kids who might want to get in a late season swim.”
DEEP is providing free lifeguard training starting in December for those people who want to work with us in the summer 2020.
