Redding, Conn. (WTNH) - After nearly three decades the access to Lisa Lind-Larsen’s driveway in Redding has been blocked. Now, she has turned to News 8 for help.
This driveway has been there for 26 years. It's the only way in and out of Lind-Larsen's home. But one day in August a chain went up cutting her off and the 71-year-old woman was subsequently cut off from her visiting nurse, Meals on Wheels, and fuel oil delivery for her furnace.
Lisa Lind-Larsen now walks through the woods to get to her car at a neighbor's house in order to go to chemo-therapy and radiation sessions. She worries about the dangers of no longer having access to her driveway.
"Nobody can get in here. What is really of some concern, not only to me, in an emergency, what happens if I have a medical emergency? They can't get in here. It's totally against the law to remove access to a residence."
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After a long, complicated tax dispute with the Town of Redding, two of her eight-and-a-half acres were foreclosed upon and sold to Daniel Torcio.
Her driveway happens to be on that land. Torcio has now chained it off, put in obstructions and dug a trench. His attorney, Adam Cohen, says his client is not interested in talking to News 8.
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Returning our call, First Selectman Natalie Ketcham said: "We would not turn a blind eye to a townsperson in need. There's nothing the Town of Redding can do. This is the result of a court judgment...."
[WTHN]
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