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Georgia, Franklin County

Georgia Volunteer Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
1 of 1
Land area
25,182 acres · 39.35 sq mi
Inside the town line
28,962 acres · 45.25 sq mi
Firefighters
20
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
4134
Calls
417 fire and EMS calls in 2024
Training
Over 2,500 hours in 2024
Fleet
A fire engine, two tankers and a 75-foot ladder truck
Phone
802-782-8045

Georgia's line runs out into the water, and 5.91 of the 45.25 square miles inside it are water. The land figure is the Census count; the total is the boundary VCGI draws.

The station

4134 Ethan Allen Hwy

Photograph by T. Garvey, 2026-08-29
Street address
4134 Ethan Allen Hwy
Town
Georgia
County
Franklin County
ZIP
05478
Coordinates
44.73101, -73.11642
E911 site ID
110386
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-05-02

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

History

Georgia's department answers fire and emergency medical calls from its station on Ethan Allen Highway. Jim Bryce, who died in 2024, donated the building and provided a crew to build it. Its trucks are replaced every 20 years, spaced five years apart, so only one is ever being financed.

  1. 2021

    The department buys its ladder truck from the St. Albans Town Fire Department. It goes into service in July and, by early 2025, has answered 80 incidents, 17 of them building fires.

  2. 2023

    439 fire and EMS calls.

    439 calls that year

  3. 2024

    417 fire and EMS calls. An EMT and a cadet join.

    417 calls that year

  4. 2025

    Town meeting approves buying a new ladder truck for up to $1.6 million, financed over no more than five years from delivery in 2029. The chief estimated the cost at about $8 per resident a year.

  5. 2026

    The Selectboard adds $35,000 to the draft budget for extrication equipment for fire and rescue.

Calls

Calls fell slightly from 2023 to 2024.

Fire and EMS calls by year

Calendar years, from the chief's report to town meeting.

Lake Champlain FranklinBerkshireHighgateRichfordSheldonSwantonEnosburghSaint Albans TownFairfieldBakersfieldFairfaxFletcherMontgomery Bakersfield Fire Department Inc — 181 Main St N, BakersfieldBerkshire Fire Department — 5948 Berkshire Center Rd, BerkshireEnosburg Fire/Rescue — 83 Sampsonville Rd, EnosburghFairfax James A Field Fire Station — 15 Goodall St, FairfaxFairfield Fire Department Station 2 — 9461 VT Route 36, FairfieldFairfield Town Fire Department — 4964 VT Route 36, FairfieldFranklin Fire & Rescue — 5154 Main St, FranklinHighgate Fire Department — 2996 VT Route 78, HighgateRichford Fire Department — 48 Main St, RichfordSt. Albans City FD — 32 Lower Welden St, Saint Albans CitySt. Albans Town FD — 428 Lake Rd, Saint Albans TownSheldon Fire Department — 479 Mill St, SheldonSwanton Village Fire Department — 120 1st St, Swanton Georgia Fire & Rescue Station — 4134 Ethan Allen Hwy, Georgia Georgia 10 miles
Georgia in Franklin County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 13 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

The department looks for firefighters, EMS providers and cadets aged 14 to 17.

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Contact

Chief
Keith Baker
Telephone
802-782-8045

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.

Sources

Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

Not recorded yet

Nothing is written up here for 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.

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