The Farmington Valley Public Safety Roundup (Nov 2–8, 2025)

The week opened with flames over Collinsville, where Canton firefighters knocked down a Sunday evening house fire on Wright Road. The family made it out, but the home took a beating; the Red Cross is assisting those displaced. Crews credited a quick attack with containing the blaze.

Before dawn on Monday rolled into Tuesday, a roving crew of masked thieves turned gas-station lobbies into crime scenes. Police say a connected string of ATM hits stretched from South Windsor through Simsbury and into Farmington—crowbars, a dark SUV, and a ripped-off storefront door at the Mobil on Farmington Ave around 1:50 a.m. Farmington PD later released surveillance video of the smash-and-grab as detectives compared notes with neighboring towns.

Midweek in Avon, first responders worked a two-car crash at Lovely Street and Mallard Drive, where firefighters had to cut two people from a sedan. Both were transported with injuries described as non-life-threatening; the road was shut down for the afternoon investigation.

Simsbury’s role this week was largely tied to that ATM spree—two Pride stations in town were hit or targeted in the same overnight window—while routine arrest logs posted for Oct. 27–Nov. 2 filled in the quieter beats of patrol work.

West Hartford, meanwhile, didn’t post a new major incident in the past few days, but the town’s recent public-safety cadence continues to revolve around Vision Zero traffic work and fall fire-safety messaging following earlier structure-fires this season.