The Vermont Air National Guard Fire Department's station,
in South Burlington, with every other fire station in Chittenden County marked
— 26 of them. No town is drawn as its own, because the ground it covers is
not a town's. Boundaries and water from VCGI; a town line runs out into the lake,
so the shoreline here is the water drawn over the boundary, not the boundary itself.
In an emergency dial 911. These are business lines.
Calls
The only fire service at Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport: the airport's director of aviation, Nic Longo, told Burlington's city council in October 2023 that the Guard provides the sole firefighting there, medical calls included (WAMC, 25 October 2023).
Most of its emergencies are off the airfield. By the Guard's own count it answered more than 1,000 calls in 2024, about 500 of them emergencies, and 86 percent of those were mutual aid in the community. It is the primary agency for 911 calls from the South Burlington neighbourhoods nearest the base, and backs up departments from Winooski to Williston to Shelburne. (The Guard's public affairs office, in a paid post in Seven Days, 22 January 2025.)
Money
Paid for by the federal government, not by local property taxes or the airport: the fire chief put the cost at $5 million to $6 million a year in January 2025 (the same paid post in Seven Days).
The airport belongs to the City of Burlington. Without the Guard's crash rescue, its director told the city council in 2023, the airport's budget would rise by about $3 million a year (WAMC).
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