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Chittenden, Rutland County

Chittenden Volunteer Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
0 of 1
Land area
46,551 acres · 72.74 sq mi
FDID
11147
Founded
1957, with 52 original members
Station
266 Chittenden Road, on the original site
Chief
Gary Rowe, a member since 1982 and chief since 2017
Also runs
Chittenden First Response, for medical calls, since 1980

The station

266 Chittenden Rd

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The firehouse: Brush 44 (2006 Ford F-450), Engine 1 (2006 Ford F-550, ex-West Rutland, 500 gpm, 300 gallons), Engine 2 (2025 Freightliner pumper-tanker, 1,250 gpm, 1,500 gallons) and Engine 4 (2019 Kenworth, 1,250 gpm, 1,000 gallons), plus a 6x6 utility vehicle. Source

Street address
266 Chittenden Rd
Town
Chittenden
County
Rutland County
ZIP
05737
Coordinates
43.70636, -72.94909
E911 site ID
67928
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-03-28

Location from the Vermont E911 site file (VCGI). Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.

History

Chittenden's volunteers built their own firehouse on land, money, materials and labour given by the town's residents, and it still stands on the same piece of land.

  1. 1956

    A barn is lost to fire, and townspeople vote to create a volunteer fire department and buy an engine.

  2. 1957

    The department forms with 52 members and buys a military-surplus 1941 American LaFrance from the Ethan Allen Air Force Base for $50.

  3. 1980

    Chittenden First Response is founded to provide medical coverage; a response vehicle follows in 1983.

  4. 1993

    An addition gives the firehouse a second-floor meeting room and three more apparatus bays.

  5. 2024

    Capt. Charley Parker, a member for over 40 years, collapses at the firehouse after returning from a barn fire on 8 July and dies. The department unveils a marble memorial to him in July 2025.

  6. 2025

    A Freightliner pumper-tanker with 1,500 gallons and a 1,250 gpm pump joins the fleet.

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Chittenden in Rutland County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 37 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.

Contact

Chief
Gary Rowe
Telephone
(802) 483-6200 (Tuesdays at 7 pm)
Website
sites.google.com/view/cvfdvt

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

Sources

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