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Shaftsbury, Bennington County

Shaftsbury Fire Department

Stations
2
Photographed
0 of 2
Land area
27,514 acres · 42.99 sq mi
Firefighters
32
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
2573
Members
32 volunteer firefighters
Status
An independent, tax-exempt fire company, funded by taxes, donations and fundraisers
Chief
Joseph Vadakin, with assistant chiefs Mike Taylor and Ed Shewell

The 2 stations

Shaftsbury Fire Station

166 Buck Hill Rd

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Street address
166 Buck Hill Rd
Town
Shaftsbury
County
Bennington County
ZIP
05262
Coordinates
42.94574, -73.20762
E911 site ID
218330
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.

Shaftsbury Fire Station

364 Old Depot Rd

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Street address
364 Old Depot Rd
Town
Shaftsbury
County
Bennington County
ZIP
05262
Coordinates
43.01069, -73.18977
E911 site ID
217476
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

Shaftsbury's main station is in the centre of town on Buck Hill Road, with a sub-station in the north on Old Depot Road near Route 7A. The department recently became its own tax-exempt fire company.

  1. 2024

    Crashes and extrications lead with 31, with 18 mutual aid calls and 6 structure fires. The 40-year-old furnace at Station 2 is being replaced, and with wildland fires on the rise the department plans to replace its 20-year-old brush truck. Former chief Ron Lindsey dies.

    102 calls that year

Calls

Crashes, mutual aid and good-intent calls made up two thirds of 2024's calls.

Calls by type, 2024
  • Car accidents and extrication 31
  • Good intent 18
  • Mutual aid 18
  • Wildland fires 8
  • Structure fires 6
  • Weather related 6
  • Search and rescue 5
  • Hazardous materials 4
  • EMS assists 4
  • Vehicle fire 1
  • Chimney or pellet stove 1

Calendar 2024. The table totals 102; the chief's letter says 100.

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Shaftsbury in Bennington 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.

Contact

Chief
Joseph Vadakin
Telephone
802-442-4226
Website
shaftsburyvt.gov/town-officials/fire-department

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.

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Sources

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