No member is paid for their time; every dollar the department receives goes to running it. Calls include structure and chimney fires, ambulance assists, crashes, alarms and mutual aid.
2023
The department's 69th year. Membership rises to 26 regular and 2 junior members, and the August barbecue and October oyster supper both set records.
29 calls that year
2024
The 70th year. A tracked, eight-wheeled Argo joins the fleet for back-country rescue, ice rescue and brush fires.
45 calls that year
2025
The oyster supper returns, to be held at the fire station from now on.
Calls
Calls rose by more than half from 2023 to 2024.
Emergency calls by year
292023
452024
Calendar years, from the department's reports to the town.
Charleston in Orleans County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
1 here, 17 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.
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
Oyster supperThe department's October fundraiser, at the fire station.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for joining, burn permits, 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.