West Windsor's volunteers answer fires and alarms and back up the town's separate Fast Squad. They also help with the Independence Day fireworks.
2025
Nine structure fires. Two new members earn Firefighter I, and the department moves its incident reporting from NFIRS to the new national NERIS system.
96 calls that year
2026
Town meeting renews the five-year tax exemption for the department's property.
West Windsor 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 department presents its own budget to the town each year.
2025 (actual)
Protective equipment
$14,000
Insurance
$11,286
Trucks
$11,220
Utilities
$8,555
Equipment
$7,504
Admin and technology
$6,337
The largest lines of $71,344 spent against $72,000 approved. $83,750 is approved for 2026 and $88,750 proposed for 2027.
Fire trucks (town capital assets)
2017 truck
$275,000
2007 truck
$250,000
Values as the town report lists them.
Working here
The department welcomes new members. Email the chief to find out how to get involved.
Monthly meetings; state-mandated and elective training
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.
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 Spotted something out of date?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.