Tweed Airport Back Open After Sunday's Brush Fire
NEW HAVEN — Tweed New Haven Regional Airport was back open and more or less back to normal Monday — or at least the new normal — after Sunday’s major brush fire, Tweed New Haven Airport Authority Executive Director Sean Scanlon said.
The airport reopened for air traffic about 5 p.m. Sunday after New Haven and airport firefighters put out the fire by about 4:30 p.m. and airport workers cleaned up the ash that had fallen on the runway, Scanlon said Monday.
The fire was reported at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, according to the New Haven Fire Department.
Scanlon said he did not know how the fire started, but “I am able to say definitely that it was not caused by a plane.”
In the midst of the coronavirus stay-at-home restriction, Tweed remains open for both commercial and private aviation, but has generally seen its American Eagle flights down to usually one flight a day in each direction, with “maybe three or four people on each flight,” Scanlon said.
Fire crews responded to brush fire and extinguished it with the help of the airport fire department, according to the New Haven Fire Department.
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