A small incorporated volunteer department with its own board, always looking for firefighters, helpers and grant writers.
2025
Seven of the calls are crashes. The department buys a 1993 International tanker from Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department for $5,000 and spends $10,000 from its truck fund to equip it; Clarendon houses it free at the Chippenhook station. A probationary firefighter joins.
20 calls that year
Calls
Crashes and medical calls made up more than half of 2025's calls.
Calls by type, 2025
Motor vehicle accidents7
Medical5
Mutual aid2
Wildland fires2
Structure fire1
Unpermitted burn1
Carbon monoxide1
Lost hiker1
The types add up to the 20 calls reported.
Ira 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
Dan Perry
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
JoinContact the chief; the department welcomes firefighters, helpers and grant writers.
Sources
Town of Ira, 2025 Town Report — Ira Volunteer Fire Department report, PDF page 16. A scanned report, read with text recognition
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 Spotted something out of date?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.