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Peru, Bennington County

Peru Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
0 of 1
Land area
23,918 acres · 37.37 sq mi
Firefighters
20
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
2474
Calls
58 incidents in 2025
Donated equipment
$22,215 bought by the Fire Company and given to the town in 2025
Burn permits
41 issued in 2025

The station

1005 Hapgood Pond Rd

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Street address
1005 Hapgood Pond Rd
Town
Peru
County
Bennington County
ZIP
05152
Coordinates
43.24438, -72.89341
E911 site ID
186579
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

Peru's Fire Company raises money to equip the town's department. Half its incidents are automatic alarms.

  1. 2025

    Chuck Black retires as fire chief after 40 years and stays on as treasurer; Mike Gayda takes over. A September wildland fire on National Forest land spreads underground from a campfire ring, and a statewide burn ban follows.

    58 calls that year

Calls

Automatic alarms were nearly half of 2025's incidents.

Incidents by type, 2025
  • Automatic alarms 28
  • Agency assist or mutual aid 7
  • Motor vehicle accidents 6
  • CO alarms 4
  • Wildland fires 4
  • Odor investigations 2
  • Structure fire 1

The types add up to the 58 incidents reported.

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Peru in Bennington County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 22 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
Mike Gayda

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

Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

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