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Middletown Springs, Rutland County

Middletown Springs VFD

Stations
1
Photographed
0 of 1
Land area
14,528 acres · 22.7 sq mi
Firefighters
18
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
11393
Staffing
100% volunteer
Station
8 Firehouse Lane: a 1950 two-bay block building with a 1984 addition
Apparatus
Ladder truck, engine/rescue, attack truck, engine/tanker and heavy rescue
Chief
Joe Castle
Town appropriation
$86,000 for FY2026 and FY2027, the first rise since 2019

The station

8 Firehouse Ln

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The firehouse: the 1950 block building and its 1984 addition. The 2021 rebuilding study noted that the ladder truck is kept off site. Source

Street address
8 Firehouse Ln
Town
Middletown Springs
County
Rutland County
ZIP
05757
Coordinates
43.48647, -73.11737
E911 site ID
157932
E911 first mapped
2003-01-30
E911 last updated
2023-01-27

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

History

The department answers crashes, structure and chimney fires, alarms, EMS assists, brush fires and hazardous materials calls, and gives mutual aid to Poultney, Ira and Wallingford. A nonprofit board of trustees oversees its finances and fundraising.

  1. 1950

    The first firehouse, a two-bay concrete block building, goes up.

  2. 1984

    A large addition joins the firehouse.

  3. 2021

    A feasibility study for rebuilding the firehouse puts the total cost at about $2.1 million. A 2018 plan for a new building on the same site had preceded it.

  4. 2024

    Assistant Chief Deryk Knipes qualifies as an ice-water rescue technician and instructor; with six more certified technicians, the department becomes a certified ice-water rescue team. A federal grant of $59,357 pays for new hose for every truck.

  5. 2025

    The new hose goes into service. The fleet, 1973 to 1995 and fully paid off, would cost about $5.5 million to replace.

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Middletown Springs 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
Joe Castle
Telephone
802-235-2300
Website
middletownsprings.vt.gov/fire-department-fire-warden

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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