Greensboro's volunteers are first response for a wide range of 911 calls, from structure fires to assists for Hardwick Rescue, and work closely with Hardwick and their other mutual aid partners.
2024
Calls in the fiscal year to June. After the July 2023 flooding, the department helps clear culverts and report road closures.
43 calls that year
2025
Calls in the fiscal year to June, 3 of them in Stannard. A new E-One truck is bought, financed over 10 years.
44 calls that year
Calls
Cancelled dispatches, crashes and structure fires led fiscal 2025.
Calls by type, July 2024 – June 2025
Dispatched but cancelled9
Car accidents8
Structure fires7
Hardwick Rescue assists6
False alarms and detector faults4
Car fires2
Electrical wiring2
Smoke or odor removal1
Propane or flammable liquid1
Water or steam leak1
Cell phone 911 activation1
CO alarm1
Grass fire1
The types add up to the 44 calls reported.
Greensboro 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.
Money
The fire department is a line in the town budget; its building and trucks are in the town's capital plan.
Fiscal year 2027 (proposed)
Payroll
$13,000
New equipment
$13,000
Dispatch
$7,600
Property and casualty insurance
$7,025
Equipment repairs
$5,000
Truck repair
$4,000
Heating fuel
$3,000
The largest lines of $66,139.50 in all, 3.15% less than fiscal 2026.
Capital plan
Firehouse roof, 2029
$100,000
Engine #1 replacement, fiscal 2030
$830,000
The firehouse's 20-year loan is paid off in fiscal 2029. Engine #1 is nearly 25 years old; its replacement would be financed over 10 years.
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
911 address signsThe department's sign program for Greensboro and Stannard homes.
Fireworks permitsFrom the fire department; burn permits come from the forest fire warden.
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.