Westmore's line runs out into the water, and 3.13 of the
37.58 square miles inside it are water. The land figure is the
Census count; the total is the boundary VCGI draws.
The station
5712 Willoughby Lake Rd
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Westmore's volunteers cover Lake Willoughby and the mountains around it, so their calls include boats in distress and mountain rescues as well as alarms and fires. Glover Ambulance or Lyndon Rescue provides the ambulance, by zone.
2025
Two boats in distress on one July day and a sinking pontoon in October; a dog rescued on Mount Pisgah; a rockslide on Route 5A. Members train at the NEIMA fire school in April and in boat operation in September.
20 calls that year
Calls
Smoke alarms were the most common call in 2025.
Calls by type, 2025
Smoke alarms9
FiresOven, campfire, brush, underground and one at the south end of Willoughby5
Lake: boats in distress or sinking3
Mountain rescue1
Vehicle rescue1
Rockslide1
Counted from the department's call log, January to 8 December 2025.
Westmore in Orleans County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
1 here, 17 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 association asks the town for an appropriation each year, and plans to seek about $30,000 more in state and private grants for equipment and apparatus.
2026 (requested)
Insurance, vehicle and liability
$8,600
Vehicle replacement matching funds
$7,500
Stipends
$5,200
Dispatch
$3,650
Large washing machine
$3,000
Training
$2,860
Pontoon sled for ice rescue
$2,500
The largest lines of a $44,660 request.
Dry hydrants, 2026 (requested)
New dry hydrant at Willoughby South End
$1,750
Servicing, and moving two for better access
$875
From the same request.
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
Westmore Fall FestivalThe department takes part each October, and lights the town Christmas tree.
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Nothing is written up here for joining, burn permits.
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department, tell us and it goes on the record with its
source named.