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Washington, Orange County

Washington Fire Department

Stations
1
Photographed
0 of 1
Land area
24,948 acres · 38.98 sq mi
Firefighters
23
Department type
Volunteer
FDID
9693
Calls
57 in 2025, above the usual average
Hours
95 hours on calls, 556 personnel hours (2025)
Members
17, including seven officers
Meets
Every Wednesday, 7 pm, at the fire station

The station

51 Firehouse Rd

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Street address
51 Firehouse Rd
Town
Washington
County
Orange County
ZIP
05675
Coordinates
44.10741, -72.43427
E911 site ID
272820
E911 first mapped
1998-01-01
E911 last updated
2023-03-28

Location from the Vermont E911 site file (VCGI). Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.

History

Washington's volunteers give mutual aid to crashes across the area, and the town pays down the loan on a fire truck.

  1. 2025

    A busier year than usual, including 18 mutual aid calls to crashes and 10 for trees and wires.

    57 calls that year

Calls

Mutual aid to crashes was the largest group of calls.

Calls by type, 2025
  • Mutual aid: motor vehicle crashes 18
  • Trees and wires 10
  • Medical assists 6
  • Service and miscellaneous 5
  • Fire alarms 4
  • Good intent 2
  • Structure fire 1
  • Chimney fire 1
  • Brush or grass fire 1
  • Vehicle fire 1

The types the department lists; they account for 49 of the 57 calls.

OrangeTopshamCorinthChelseaVershireWest FairleeFairleeTunbridgeStraffordThetfordBraintreeRandolphNewburyWilliamstownBrookfieldBradford Bradford Fire Station — 135 Carson Ln, BradfordBrookfield Fire Station — 56 Fire Dept Ln, BrookfieldChelsea Fire Station — 324 VT Route 110, ChelseaCorinth Fire Station — 1407 Cookeville Rd, CorinthCorinth Fire Station — 349 Fairground Rd, CorinthCorinth Fire Station — 832 Village Rd, CorinthFairlee Fire Station — 5445 Lake Morey Rd, FairleeNewbury Fire Station — 15 Main St N, NewburyNewbury Fire Station — 2745 Snake Rd, NewburyNewbury Fire Station — 60 Chapel St, NewburyRandolph Fire Station — 0 Water St, RandolphRandolph Fire Station — 107 Furnace St, RandolphRandolph Fire Station — 152 VT Route 14 S, RandolphRandolph Fire Station — 2 Central St, RandolphStrafford Fire Station — 149 Route 132, StraffordStrafford Fire Station — 241 Justin Morrill Memorial Hwy, StraffordThetford Fire Station — 2829 VT Route 113, ThetfordThetford Fire Station — 382 VT Route 244, ThetfordTopsham Fire Station — 24 Powder Spring Rd, TopshamTopsham Fire Station — 477 VT Route 25, TopshamTunbridge Fire Station — 4 Monarch Hill Rd, TunbridgeVershire Fire Station — 9111 VT Route 113, VershireWest Fairlee Fire Station — 927 VT Route 113, West FairleeWilliamstown Fire Station — 249 Meadow St, Williamstown Washington Fire Station — 51 Firehouse Rd, Washington Washington 10 miles
Washington in Orange County. Every fire station in the county is marked — 1 here, 24 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

Voters approve the department's operating budget as a town meeting article.

Fiscal year 2025 (actual)
Long-term debt $23,070
Apparatus replacement fund $15,000
Firefighting $10,300
Dispatch $9,742
Protective gear $8,149

The largest lines of $87,639.01 spent against an $86,250 budget. $87,070 is budgeted for fiscal 2026 and $92,523 proposed for 2027.

Fire truck loan
Balance, 30 June 2025 $42,727

Town long-term debt for the fire truck.

Working here

"The hardest step is the first step through the door." New members are welcome, especially younger ones.

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Contact

Chief
Ryan Bresette

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.

Sources

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.

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