40 volunteer firefighters, 10 cadets and one part-time employee
Calls
About 240 a year
Station
47 Bombardier Road, opened 2003
Also handles
Hazmat, water rescue and basic vehicle extrication
Ambulance
Milton Rescue, advanced life support, about 1,700 calls a year
Milton's line runs out into the water, and 9.37 of the
60.97 square miles inside it are water. The land figure is the
Census count; the total is the boundary VCGI draws.
The station
47 Bombardier Rd
Photograph by TGG, 2026-08-29
Home to eight pieces of apparatus, two boats and a hazmat trailer. Milton Rescue, the town's advanced life support ambulance, works from the same address. Source
For 66 years Milton's fire department was run by the village, with money from the town. In 2003 it moved into a new station and became a town department when the two governments merged.
2003
On 27 January the department moves into its new station at 47 Bombardier Road: 12,000 sq ft, finished on time and within budget.
2003
On 30 June the village and town governments merge, ending 66 years of the village running the fire department.
Milton in Chittenden County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
1 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.
Working here
The fire department is volunteer and paid on call; Milton Rescue has more than 50 volunteers, per-diem and full-time members, certified up to paramedic.
Firefighters: fill in the volunteer application and the membership committee will set up an interview
The department meets Monday evenings at 7: a business meeting on the first Monday, training on the second and third
Rescue volunteers work one 12-hour shift a week and one 12-hour weekend shift a month
Milton Rescue is hiring per-diem AEMT and paramedic crew chiefs
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
Burn permitsState law requires a permit from the Town Forest Fire Warden to burn natural wood or debris outdoors.
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