Nobody knows exactly when Cabot's department began. Marshfield's town records show it helping fight a fire there in 1908. It is a town department; its budget is voted as a separate line at Town Meeting, and its members are Cabot residents who are paid nothing.
1908
Marshfield's records note "the Cabot Fire Department" helping at a fire in that town, the earliest mention found.
Cabot in Washington County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
1 here, 22 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.
Working here
Active firefighters are welcome, and so is help with administration or weekly equipment checks.
The department meets the second Wednesday of each month at the fire station
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 permitsRequired whenever there's no snow on the ground; from Chief Deasy.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for burn permits, call volume, budget.
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.