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St. Johnsbury Fire Department - 1187 Main Street Suite III - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - 802-748-8925 - Emergency Dial 911


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We recently reconstructed our Memorial Garden in front of the firehouse. We included a short brick walkway. If you wish to purchase a brick you can have it engraved for $50.00. Proceeds go to the Gene McDonough Scholarship Fund. Click on the brick above to download a registration form that can be mailed to the fire department. Thank you for your continued support!







St. Johnsbury Fire Department Helps out Dr. Zimmerman











St. Johnsbury Fire helped out Dr. Roger Zimmerman yesterday afternoon/night with allowing the fundraising runner to spend the night with us as he makes his run from Maine to UVM in Burlington. He is raising funds for the UVM scholarship fund after graduating over fifty years ago.

Roger arrived at the fire station around 1PM. He was provide with a place to shower and sleep for the night. He toured around St. Johnsbury for the afternoon and was treated to supper by the members of C shift who made homemade pizza. Unfortunately his sleep was interrupted several times during the night as C shift had multiple calls during the night. Either way we were happy to have him visit us and enjoyed meeting him and learning of his adventure.
On September 11, 2011 members of SJFD, members of the community, and other area agencies met at St. Johnsbury Fire Deparment to hold a memorial service of 9/11/01 to honor all the fallen. To view more photos of the service please click here.
























Photos Courtesy of Caledonian-Record


September 11, 2011
Memorial Service
























Photo Courtesy of Caledonian-Record

On May 29th St. Johnsbury Fire was dispatched to a 2nd alarm building fire in Danville. The engine company consisting of Captain Reed, FF Gilding, Captain Rivers, FF Sylvia, and FF Emery as well as other off duty career and call firefighters responded and arrived on the scene first to find a private dwelling with heavy fire in the roof on the rear of the structure. The members stretched a 2.5" line and were able to cut the fire off at the addition before it extended into the front portion of the house. The fire heavily damaged the rear of the building, the front had no fire damage. During the response FF Gilding strategically maneuvered the appartus around washed out areas of the road narrowly making it by. The crews fought the fire during extremely heavy downpours and frequent lightning which continued to strike nearby, which was the cause of the fire.

May 29, 2011
Mutual Aid - Danville - 2nd Alarm Structure Fire














 













Photos Courtesy of Caledonian-Record


On May 26th around 7:30pm St. Johnsbury Fire Department was hit with severe weather that lasted for several hours with large hail, torrential downpours, and frequent lightning. During the event members were dispatched to a lightning strike on Main Street in a historic 3 story private dwelling. On arrival there was smoke pushing from the mansard roof on the D side of the building. The first arriving crew was Capt. Reed, FF Gilding, FF Pelow, FF Porter, and FF Henault, the an attack line and discovered fire on the 2nd floor, 3rd floor, and in the roof section. Addition crews arrived, opened the walls, and held the fire to the original are that it was found. Durning this storm event SJFD responded to over 20 incidents ranging from lightning stikes, water rescues, building evacuations, and cars stranded in the river.

May 27, 2011
Main Street - Structure Fire - All Hands Operating
























 

Shortly before 1:00am on Wednesday January 19th Fire Alarm received multiple calls reporting a structure fire in the Pearl Street/Federal Street area. Engine 1 arrived with Assistant Chief Marc LaRose, FF Mike Pelow, and FF Ryan Pelow to find a detached garage fully involved with exposure to the rear of the house. Engine 1 crew quickly stretched a line to extinguish the outside of the house that was burning, and protected it while a search was made from the inside. As additional crews arrived they were able to knock down the garage fire and keep it from spreading into the house.
Photo Courtesy of Mike Wright
January 19, 2011
Working Structure Fire Pearl Street




















LAST ALARM Retired Captain Wallace Bengston

The St. Johnsbury Fire Department regrets to announce the passing of Retired Captain Wallace Bengston.
Wally was very active in his community and served it with pride. He served on the fire department for over 22 years, and retired in 1995. Our sympathy goes out to his family and friends, and he will never be forgotten.

2011 SJFD Incident Totals
January
102
February
102
March
101
April
91
May
119
June
95
July
122
August
120
September
113
October
122
November
87
December
Total:
1174

SJFD Memorial Garden Gets Reconstrutcted