Barnard Fire & Rescue works from the Emergency Services Building on North Road and answers fire and first-response calls. Broad Brook serves East Barnard and the Broad Brook watershed, which reaches into Pomfret, South Royalton and Sharon.
1951
Barnard Volunteer Fire & Rescue is founded.
1955
The Broad Brook Volunteer Fire Association is founded to serve East Barnard.
2024
Barnard's calls for fiscal 2024.
67 calls that year
2025
Voters raise $62,500 for a breathing-air compressor and filling station. The department trains in large animal rescue, live fire and water rescue, and wins the Philip D. Levesque Memorial Community Award for its outreach. Broad Brook switches its station heat from oil to propane.
81 calls that year
Barnard in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
2 here, 26 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 supports both departments by appropriation.
Fiscal year 2027 (requested)
Barnard Volunteer Fire & Rescue
$70,500
Broad Brook Volunteer Fire Association
$18,000
Up from $65,000 and $15,000 in fiscal 2026.
Special article, 2025
Breathing-air compressor and filling station
$62,500
Article 8 of the 2025 town meeting.
Contact
Chief
Stuart Hull Jr.
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.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for joining, burn permits.
Not because it does not exist — because nobody has typed it in. If you know this
department, tell us and it goes on the record with its
source named.