WILLINGTON — Route 32 reopened Thursday morning after a structure fire closed the road Wednesday night, WFSB reported, citing the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
CTroads’ earlier advisory recorded a both-directions closure on River Road at 10:18 p.m. October 28, updated at 10:20 p.m. The notice was absent when reviewed around 3 a.m. Thursday. WFSB’s subsequent reopening report provides additional information; the earlier notice’s disappearance alone was not confirmation.
BreakingNow, in a post by Doug Oberly supplied to Eastern CT News, had reported a working basement fire around 10 p.m. The dispatch-style report listed mutual aid from Stafford, UConn and Tolland, including two Tolland tankers, and said two additional tankers had been requested.
CTroads' Wednesday-night advisory independently confirmed a structure fire and the both-directions road closure. It did not confirm the basement location, specific responding agencies or tanker requests; those details remain attributed to BreakingNow.
In a later post available through WINY Radio's RSS feed, WINY relayed a Tolland County Mutual Aid Fire Service incident alert classifying the River Road call as a residential structure fire. The alert records the call time as 9:55:02 p.m. October 28. This is a dispatch alert relayed by WINY, not a separate eyewitness account or a final fire-department incident report.
Oberly’s earlier comment described a southbound closure at the rotary; CTroads’ Wednesday-night advisory described both directions. WFSB’s Thursday report places the closure near Plains Road and does not give an exact reopening time.
No injury information, cause, damage assessment or containment update was available in the sources reviewed. Tanker requests do not establish any of those outcomes.
This AI-prepared update uses WFSB’s complete Thursday report, the earlier official CTroads advisory, WINY Radio’s RSS rendition of a Tolland County dispatch alert, and a supplied screenshot of BreakingNow’s report. Eastern CT News did not witness the fire or speak directly with responding officials.
File photo: UConn Fire Department apparatus outside the Public Safety Complex, published by UConn Today in July 2026. UConn was among the agencies listed in the mutual-aid report. This photograph does not show the Willington fire or establish which vehicles responded.