Vermont Fire News

VIDEO: College students are coming to the rescue in Addison County through a program that helps Middlebury students build their futures while helping the community.

A hose line was deployed through the home’s second floor and crews opened ceilings and walls in order to reach the flames.

A fire that broke out at the Ethan Allen manufacturing plant in Orleans has been extinguished, according to officials from the Orleans Fire Department.

A firefighter was hospitalized after responding to a house fire in Enosburgh. It happened at a home on Sampsonville Road.

Crews arrived to find smoke billowing from the third floor of a multi-unit, wood frame apartment building, and upgraded the situation to a full structure fire.

Swanton Fire Captain Lawrence Bouissey says the man who lived in the unit where the fire started tried and failed to put the fire out himself and was sent to the hospital with burns.

Chief Kevin McAllister saw a barred owl being harassed by crows while on his way to the station. The fire chief found that the owl was hurt and unable to fly.

Members of the Proctorsville Fire Department responded to the home and were assisted by firefighters from neighboring departments.

VIDEO: Roads in Waterbury have been a little quieter since the start of the new year because the Waterbury Ambulance Service has changed how it responds to certain calls.

VIDEO: The Hinesburg Fire Department is developing a new backcountry rescue squad with help from a $7,000 grant that officials call “transformative.”

The Greensboro fire chief said the fire started in the garage, but spread to the home by the time crews arrived.

A fire at Gilles Sales and Service took firefighters about two and a half hours to extinguish, according to East Montpelier Fire Chief Thomas Parker.