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Station 2, a small 1970s addition to the 1874 Jerusalem Schoolhouse, houses one truck for South Starksboro. The town plans a stand-alone two-bay station here and a renovated schoolhouse as a community centre; approvals are in place and the town is seeking funding. Source
Starksboro's firefighters are volunteers, organised as a nonprofit the town helps fund. A separate volunteer first response team of EMTs, unpaid and without even a stipend, answers medical calls in town.
2022
48 calls, 536 hours on calls and 399 hours of training. The department asks Town Meeting to approve a new fire truck.
48 calls that year
2023
The Development Review Board approves the site plan for a new two-bay Station 2 beside the 1874 Jerusalem Schoolhouse, replacing a deteriorating 1970s addition.
2024
64 calls, 17 more than the year before, with 672 hours on calls and 629 of training. Three new members join.
64 calls that year
2025
The new Engine 1 arrives in June and goes into service at the end of July, once the pump operators are trained. 54 calls, 426 hours on calls, 251 of training.
54 calls that year
Calls
Firefighters answer building fires, crashes, carbon monoxide calls, medical assists and mutual aid. The first responders logged 158 calls in 2024 and 108 in 2025, most of them medical.
Fire department calls by year
482022
472023
642024
542025
Calendar years, from the chief's report in each town report. 2023 is worked out from the 2024 report's "17 more calls than last year".
Starksboro in Addison County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
3 here, 20 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 department is a nonprofit corporation. The town appropriates $24,000 a year; donations and the coin drop make up much of the rest. Fiscal 2025 included a down payment on the new truck.
Fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), receipts
Town appropriation
$24,000
Donations
$5,579
Coin drop
$3,508
Other income
$2,216
The treasurer's report, rounded to the dollar.
Largest spending, fiscal 2025
Down payment on the new truck
$4,620
Heating, Station 1
$3,737
Fire equipment
$3,117
Radios, pagers and repairs
$2,959
Total spending that year was $31,035.
Working here
The department is always looking for new members.
Business meetings the first Monday of the month; drills the third Monday and the last Wednesday
Stop by the station, or contact the chief
First response members must have lived in town a year and hold a Vermont EMS certification
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 permitsFor grass, leaves, brush or untreated natural wood: call Chief Tom Estey or Assistant Chief Tony Porter. All other burning is illegal.
Station 2 projectPlans, assessments and approvals for the Jerusalem Community Center and fire station.
Read in October 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Not recorded yet
Nothing is written up here for 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.