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Middlebury, Addison County

Middlebury Fire Department

Stations
2
Photographed
0 of 2
Land area
25,108 acres · 39.23 sq mi
Firefighters
35
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
1387
Calls
262 in 2025, of 50 different kinds
Staffing
Paid on call; residents and selected Middlebury College students
Technical rescue
Swift water, rope, ice and land search
Chief
David Shaw, a member since 1980

The 2 stations

Middlebury Fire Station

373 E Main St

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Street address
373 E Main St
Town
Middlebury
County
Addison County
ZIP
05740
Coordinates
43.97357, -73.10512
E911 site ID
156181
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-01-27

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

Middlebury Fire Station

5 Seymour St

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Station 1, on Seymour Street. The technical rescue team keeps two motorised Zodiac boats here and a rescue truck with a winch and lighting. The non-emergency line, 802-388-4462, is answered only when members are at the station. Source

Street address
5 Seymour St
Town
Middlebury
County
Addison County
ZIP
05753
Coordinates
44.01532, -73.16829
E911 site ID
154793
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-01-27

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

History

Middlebury's fire department took its current name on 7 May 1920, though fire protection in the town is much older. It is paid on call, and its own technical rescue team handles water, rope and ice rescue.

  1. 1920

    The Middlebury Fire Department is established under its current name on 7 May.

  2. 2025

    262 calls, 1,825 hours on calls and more than 2,260 hours of training. A $19,500 grant pays for two new dry hydrants, in Otter Creek and the East Middlebury River, put in with the highway department. A $30,000 campaign, led by G. Stone Motors and three other donors, renews the technical rescue team's equipment.

    262 calls that year

  3. 2028

    A new utility truck is expected early in the year.

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Middlebury in Addison County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 2 here, 21 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

Membership has dipped slightly and the department is looking for people with the time to give. No fire or EMT experience is needed.

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Contact

Chief
David Shaw
Telephone
802-388-4462
Website
www.middleburyfiredept.org/

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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