Woodstock Fire/EMS is the town's fire department and its primary ambulance, with contracts to cover parts of Pomfret, Plymouth, Reading, Hartland and Bridgewater. It also runs inspection programmes for short-term rentals and rooftop solar.
1975
The ambulance service is established.
2016
Woodstock loses a grade on its ISO fire-protection rating, raising some insurance premiums by up to $500; the department sets out to win back two grades.
2022
Fire calls in the calendar year, plus 826 EMS calls and 84 building inspections. The remodelled and enlarged emergency services building nears completion: with two to four people on duty around the clock, a truck now leaves in under two minutes, where it once could take up to twenty.
271 calls that year
2024
Fire calls in fiscal 2024, among 1,352 calls in all including 964 EMS events. The department buys a new ambulance and three cardiac monitors, certifies a full-time member as a paramedic, and trains 40 residents in CPR.
308 calls that year
Calls
Fire alarms and calls for other departments lead the fire calls; the ambulance answers three times as many again.
Fire calls by type, 2022
Other department calls99
Fire alarms96
Motor vehicle crashes22
Power lines14
Brush or grass fires8
EMS assists8
Electrical fires5
Chimney fires4
Fuel spills, hazmat, propane4
CO alarm malfunctions4
Carbon monoxide incidents3
Building fires2
Vehicle fires2
Calendar 2022; the types add up to the 271 fire calls reported. EMS calls (826) are counted separately.
Woodstock in Windsor County. Every fire station in the county is marked —
2 here, 26 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.
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 permitsNeeded for any outdoor fire, all year, even with snow on the ground. Get the first at the fire station; after that a phone call will do. Natural brush and wood only.
Short-term rentalsEvery short-term rental in the town and village needs an annual fire department permit and inspection.
Smoke and CO alarmsFree checks on request. CO alarms expire after 5 years, smoke alarms after 10.
JoinAlways looking for residents to become firefighters or EMTs, part-time or on call. Ask at the fire station.
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