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Street address
812 Va Cutoff Rd
Town
Hartford
County
Windsor County
ZIP
05001
Coordinates
43.65313, -72.34554
This station is not in the Vermont
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History
Hartford's department provides fire protection and paramedic-level ambulance service, and is an all-hazards team: confined space, heights, structural collapse, swift water and trench rescue, plus a mobile support unit for Vermont Emergency Management.
1982
The Quechee station, Station 2, opens and is dedicated.
2004
Hartford becomes the first fire department in New England to be accredited by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International.
2024
47 fires, 1,879 EMS and rescue calls, and 768 service calls and alarms. The swift water team rescues more than 24 people and pets in Barre, Groton and Lyndonville during the storms.
2,694 calls that year
2024
On Town Meeting Day voters approve a $1.3 million bond to expand Station 2.
2025
The expanded Station 2 reopens on 30 July, staffed around the clock by two firefighters with an engine and an ambulance. A community nurse programme, begun in December 2024, is running; three firefighters are hired, a new ambulance arrives, and 1,012 building inspections are carried out.
2,967 calls that year
Calls
Seven in ten calls are medical or rescue; fires are under 2%.
Calls by type, FY2024
EMS and rescue1,879
Service calls and alarms768
Fires47
2,694 calls in the year reported in 2024. The 2025 report gives 2,967, "an increase of 419", which would put the year before at 2,548; the reports do not explain the difference.
Hartford in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
2 here, 26 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
Hartford's department is mostly payroll: firefighters' salaries, overtime and benefits. Ambulance billing brings back about $800,000 a year.
Fiscal year 2026, budget
Firefighter salaries
$1,097,984
Health insurance
$582,398
Overtime
$410,000
Retirement
$289,101
Workers' compensation
$267,755
Fire chief's salary
$137,738
Six of the fire department's lines in the town's general fund; captains' and lieutenants' pay are budgeted separately.
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
Non-emergency802-295-3232, or Station 2 in Quechee at 802-295-9679. Dial 911 for emergencies.
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