Too many cars are not reacting to silent blue or green flashing lights in fire and ambulance volunteers' vehicles the same way they would to a siren, said East Hampton Fire Department Chief Gerard Turza, and this summer is worse than ever, because, he suggested, the pandemic has attracted more people unfamiliar with how local emergency services operate.
A handwritten note showed up in an Orchard Lane resident's mailbox on July 29 saying that her pool pump was broken, that it was very loud, and requesting that she turn it off. The next day an unknown person entered her backyard and unplugged the pump. A repair company was to have arrived last week.
A teenage driver who reportedly fled the scene of an accident late Tuesday night that left a pedestrian with serious injuries was arrested a few hours later, at 2:40 a.m. yesterday, at his home in Montauk.
A few more details have emerged regarding an accident reported here last week, in which Paul Brennan of Sagaponack had to be extracted from his 2020 Land Rover after a near head-on collision on Stephen Hand's Path near Two Holes of Water Road, East Hampton.
