The Sharon Firemen's Association runs the town's volunteer fire department from the station on Route 14. Hartford dispatches its calls, and South Royalton Rescue provides the ambulance.
2025
With a town building fund the department replaces all three front bay doors, and with its own fundraising buys a cascade air system from Barnard's fire department to refill breathing-air bottles. It hosts Fire Prevention Day at the elementary school and a chicken barbecue at Old Home Days, with free meals for seniors and veterans.
102 calls that year
Sharon in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
1 here, 27 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.
Money
The fire department is a line in the town budget.
Fiscal year 2027 (proposed)
Fire department
$46,900
Down from $53,250 only because $12,000 of Hartford dispatch fees moved to the general fund; the town says the fire budget actually rose $5,650.
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 permitsRequired for any planned burning. Contact the town fire wardens; the number is on the Fire Safety sign at the firehouse.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for joining, burn permits.
Not because it does not exist — because nobody has typed it in. If you know this
department, tell us and it goes on the record with its
source named.