Barre
Town
The Barre Town Fire Department serves both Barre Town
and a portion of the town of Orange. It is also a member
of the Capital Fire Mutual Aid System providing mutual
aid to all area fire departments. BTFD operates out of
two fire stations, East Barre and South Barre.
Barre Town Fire Department, Solomon Station in East Barre.
Photo by Stefan Hard
PUBLIC EVENTS
Annual Rabies Clinic at the South Barre Station in March, Annual Father’s Day chicken BBQ at the East Barre Station, and Barre
Town’s annual spring into summer festival, both in June, and just completed 61st consecutive one; several events involving Barre
Town Middle and Elementary School throughout the year; Barre Heritage Festival in July. “Our annual 52 gun raffle is a big deal.
We’ve raised approximately $120,000 in the last five years with that raffle,” which starts in January every year, chief Violette
said. “We’ve purchased with no tax-payer dollars a UTV (all terrain side-by-side vehicle) with a medical skid and an enclosed
trailer, a utility pickup truck with a wildland firefighting skid unit (removable), two sets of battery-operated jaws of life tools,
includes a spreader and cutter each.”
Chris Violette
Chief
Chris Sanborn
Deputy Chief
Chris Day
Assistant Chief
John Lange
Assistant Chief
Steve Morrison
Captain
Brent Putney
Captain
Brad Morse
1st Lieutenant
Josh Stewart
1st Lieutenant
Brandon Tessier
2nd Lieutenant
Andrew Woodhams
2nd Lieutenant
Shaun Brunner
Adam Crawford
Rick Hutchinson
Leo dePrato
Craig Hull
Joe Hutchinson
Kevin Oits
John Leu
Mark Earle
Jon Winter
12 • THE BARRE MONTPELIER TIMES ARGUS HOMETOWN HEROES FIREFIGHTERS 2018
Rick Couture
Rob Williams
John Mayo
Josh Martineau
Damian Hutches
Olivia Couture
Anderson Brown
Zach Bullock
Ryan John