Arlington's department answers calls in three towns and gives mutual aid to its neighbours. The town has long paid for its operations; the Arlington Fire Protection Company, a nonprofit, used to own and run the two firehouses.
2025
72 calls in Arlington, 64 in Sunderland and 15 in Sandgate, the rest mutual aid. Members log 1,291 training hours, adding joint drills on interior attack and water supply. The fire wardens issue 67 burn permits. The Fire Protection Company hands both firehouses to the town, which takes on about $40,000 a year to run them.
190 calls that year
Arlington in Bennington County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
2 here, 21 in neighbouring towns, which is
who turns out on a mutual aid call.
Boundaries and water from VCGI; fire district lines are not town lines, and
village districts and contracted coverage cross them. A town line runs out into
the lake, so the shoreline here is the water drawn over the boundary, not the
boundary itself.
Money
The town pays for the department, with contributions from Sunderland and Sandgate, and puts $100,000 a year into a fire truck reserve.
2025, actual
Fire truck capital reserve
$100,000
New equipment
$65,983
Truck maintenance
$31,110
Volunteer stipends
$13,750
Communications and WiFi
$12,040
Insurance
$11,090
The largest lines in the town's 2025 fire department spending.
Fire department, by year
2026, proposed
$324,000
2025, actual
$272,286
2025, budget
$275,430
2026 adds the firehouses' upkeep and utilities, and grant writing.
In an emergency dial 911. These are business lines.
Burning
Vermont requires a Permit to Kindle Fire from the town’s Forest Fire Warden for anything larger than a campfire — except where snow covers the ground at the burn site, or the fire is at least 200 feet from anything that will carry flame. Wardens can suspend burning outright when fire danger is high. Who to ask locally is recorded department by department; where it is blank below, the fire department itself is the place to start.
For residents
Burn permitsFrom the town's fire wardens; 67 were issued in 2025.
JoinStop by the firehouse any time: the department is always looking for volunteers.
Sources
Town of Arlington, 2025 Town Report — Fire Department report, PDF page 43; Select Board, PDF pages 36–37; budget notes, PDF page 18; fire wardens, PDF page 44
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