Addison County Firefighters Association awards three scholarships

The Addison County Firefighters Association’s Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce awards to area students Genevieve Forand, Paige Guilbeault and Ila Crowley. A formal presentation was made at the association’s quarterly dinner, held April 15 at the Vergennes fire station. The scholarships are in the amount of $1,000 each. Genevieve is the daughter of Eric and Cathleen Forand of Bristol. Genevieve is graduating from Mount Abraham Union High School and will attend Roger Williams University in Rhode I … (read more)

Three volunteer firefighters from the Vergennes Volunteer Fire Department brought the truck to the co-op’s final gathering of the school year.

The annual meeting of the Addison County Firefighters Association drew 149 firefighters representing 17 area departments ranging from Addison to Orwell.

The Middlebury Fire Department and Battell Hose Company held their annual awards dinner last month at the VFW Post 7823 in Middlebury. The dinner was attended by current, former, and life members of the Middlebury Fire Department, as well as by the member … (read more)

For 14-year-old George Cammack attending the 2024 Fire Cadet Academy hosted in Pittsford by the Vermont State Firefighter’ Association was one of the few times he stepped foot outside of his Ripton home this summer.

Addison County’s community firefighters are a special breed of volunteers who, almost uniformly, spend hundreds of hours each year training and reporting to duty for one reason: a desire to give back to their communities.

Saturday was a typically hot summer day, and there was a lot of cool water splashed and sprayed in the G. Stone Motors parking lot in Middlebury. But it wasn’t kids playing in the water — it was adult men and women.

The Middlebury Fire Department will host the Vermont State Firefighters Association 134th annual convention, slated for this Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27, in the county’s shire town.

When a truck hauling gas caught fire on Route 7 last year, the Ferrisburgh fire chief thought it was a once in a career event. Then it happened again this week — and many firefighters turned out to help douse the blaze.

Newly proposed federal rules aimed at increasing the safety of first responders could ironically cause the death of many firefighting and rescue organizations in Vermont and throughout the country, according to public safety officials here in Addison Coun … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — The Addison County Firefighters Association Scholarship Committee has chosen Ellison Thomas and Elias Pike to receive scholarships awarded to Addison County students. A formal presentation was made at the Association’s quarterly dinner me … (read more)

Brooke Bertrand of Whiting and Spencer White of Vergennes were recently chosen to receive Ray E. Davison scholarships from The Addison County Firefighters Association.

Ferrisburgh firefighters save local man, but the house was likely destroyed in early morning blaze.

As the number of hours that people have to volunteer dwindle in small towns across the county, fire departments continue to struggle to maintain an adequate number of dedicated helpers.

A.J. Rossbach, a Middlebury College student from Seattle, is breaking boundaries locally and nationwide as a volunteer at the Middlebury Fire Department.