Guilford Volunteer Fire Department
Serving Guilford, Vermont Since 1949
January 2010
Call 1...1/1/10...Brush 1 and additional personnel to Guilford Center Road for a motor vehicle accident.
Call 2...1/3/10...EMS personnel to Tater Lane for a medical emergency.
Call 3...1/5/10...EMS personnel to Sweet Pond Road for a medical emergency.
Call 4...1/8/10...Engine 1 to Interstate-91 for a motor vehicle accident.
Call 5...1/11/10...Smoke investigation on Tater Lane, was a permit burn. Units held in quarters.
Call 6...1/12/10...Asst. Chief Tkacyzk and Engine 1 to Slate Rock Road for an illegal burn.
Call 7...1/14/10...Personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road to check on a brush pile fire that was started unintentionally. Units held in quarters.
Call 8...1/20/10...Engine 1 to Bernardston Fire Station (mutual aid) to cover.
Call 9...1/20/10...EMS personnel to Packer Corners Road for a medical emergency.
Call 10...1/23/10...EMS personnel to Tater lane for a medical emergency.
Call 11...1/24/10...Engine 1, Engine 3, Brush 1 and additional personnel to Franklin Road in Vernon for a first alarm chimney fire.
Call 12...1/24/10...Chief Bristol to Interstate 91 for a motor vehicle accident. Engine 1 held in quarters, not needed.
February 2010
Call 13...2/1/10...EMS personnel (mutual aid) to Lowry Road in Vernon for an ill subject.
Call 14...2/6/10...EMS personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for a medical emergency.
Call 15...2/8/10...Engine 1 and Tanker 1 to Coolidge Highway (Route 5) for a chimney fire.
Call 16...2/14/10...EMS personnel to Hinesburg Road for a subject fallen.
Call 17...2/14/10...EMS personnel to Gill Drive for a medical emergency.
Call 18...2/16/10...Engine 1 to Interstate 91 for a motor vehicle accident.
Call 19...2/16/10...Engine 1 and Brush 1 to Interstate 91 for a tractor-trailer unit jackknifed.
Call 20...2/17/10...Engine 1 to Partridge Road for an electrical problem.
Call 21...2/17/10...Fire personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for an oil leak from a truck.
Call 22...2/20/10...EMS personnel to Tater Lane for a medical emergency.
Call 23...2/21/10...EMS personnel to Coolidge Highway for a medical emergency.
Call 24...2/22/10...Engine 1 to Interstate 91 for a car into the median.
Call 25...2/23/10...Engine 3 and Brush 1 to Guilford Center Road for wires down and burning.
Call 26...2/24/10...Brush 1 to Coolidge Highway for tree and wires down.
Call 27...2/24/10...Brush 1 to Creamery Road for a public assist.
Call 28...2/24/10...Fire personnel to Weatherhead Hollow for a wire down.
Call 29...2/24/10...Brush 1 to River Road for wires down.
Call 30...2/24/10...Motor vehicle accident on Interstate 91. Cancelled -- apparatus held in quarters.
Call 31...2/25/10...Brush 1 and Fire/EMS personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for a motor vehicle rollover.
Call 32...2.25.10...Brush 1 and Fire personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for a branch burning on a wire.
Call 33...2/25/10...EMS personnel and Brush 1 to Coolidge Highway for a medical emergency.
Call 34...2/26/10...Engine 1 to the Vermont Welcome Center for a motor vehicle into a hydrant.
Call 35...2/27/10...Tanker 1 and Brush 1 (mutual aid) to Melchen Road in West Brattleboro for a house fire.
Call 36...2/28/10...Tanker 1 and Fire personnel, dispatched for mutual aid to Green River Road in Halifax for a first alarm shed fire reported by a passer-by. The caller was unsure of their location. This turned out to be a sugar house boiling sap on Hinesburg Road in Guilford.
March 2010
Call 37...3/4/10...EMS personnel to Whipple Drive for a medical emergency.
Call 38...3/7/10...Fire and EMS personnel to Tkaczyk Farm Road for a chainsaw injury.
Call 39...3/7/10...EMS personnel to Stage Road for a medical emergency.
Call 40...3/7/10...Engine 1 to Interstate 91 for a motor vehicle acident with no injury.
Call 41...3/11/10...EMS personnel and Brush 1 to Butternut Hill for a medical emergency.
Call 42...3/16/10...EMS personnel and Brush 1 to Lee Road for a medical emergency.
Call 43...3/16/10...EMS personnel and Brush 1 to Lee Road for a medical emergency.
Call 44...3/19/10...EMS personnel to Wolosko Drive for a medical emergency.
Call 45...3/20/10...Fire/EMS personnel and Engine 1 to Weatherhead Hollow Road for a motor vehicle accident.
Call 46...3/25/10...Engine 1, Tanker 1, Engine 3 with mutual aid from Bernardston, Mass, Brattleboro, Putney and Vernon for a second alarm shed fire on Tubbs Drive.
Call 47...3/29/10...EMS personnel to Old County Road for a medical emergency.
Call 48...3/30/10...EMS personnel to Keats Brook Road for a medical emergency.
April 2010
Call 49...4/2/10...Engine 1 and Brush 1 with mutual aid from Brattleboro to Creamery Road for smoke in a building -- it was a dryer fire.
Call 50...4/7/10...Brush 1 and Engine 1 to Jelly Mill Road for an ATV fire.
Call 51...4/7/10...Brush 1 and Engine 1 to the Vermont Welcome Center for a brush fire.
Call 52...4/8/10...Automatic fire alarm on School Road. Units held in quarters, faulty detector.
Call 53...4/11/10...Engine 3, Brush 1, Tanker 1 with mutual aid from Halifax, Colrain, Shelburne, Bernardston and Leyden for a first alarm brush fire on Corner Road.
Call 54...4/16/10...EMS personnel to Keats Brook Road for a medical emergency.
Call 55...4/17/10...EMS personnel to Fitch Road for a medical emergency.
Call 56...4/21/10...Fire alarm on Bennett Road, units held in quarters, alarm due to power surge.
Call 57...4/21/10...EMS personnel to Coolidge Highway for a medical emergency.
Call 58...4/21/10...EMS personnel to Stage Road for a bicycle accident.
Call 59... 4/24/10...Engine 1, Tanker 1, Brush 1 and Off-Road unit to River Road for a brush fire.
Call 60...4/26/10...EMS personnel to Briggs Road for an ill subject.
Call 61...4/27/10...EMS personnel to Old County Road for an ill subject.
Call 62...4/30/10...Fire personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for an out-of-control permit burn called in by a passer-by. It was under control.
May 2010
Call 63...5/2/10...EMS personnel to Lee Road for a medical emergency.
The following ten calls originated between 16:00 and 17:00 hours on 5/4/10. The last call finished at 23:00. Most calls were due to severe weather that passed through the area.
Call 64...5/4/10...EMS personnel to Johnson Pasture Drive for a medical emergency.
Call 65...5/4/10...Fire personnel found wires hanging low on Guilford Center Road, while enroute to an earlier call.
Call 66...5/4/10...Engine 1 to Lovell Drive for wires down and a brush fire.
Call 67...5/4/10...Fire personnel found a tree and wires down blocking Borkowski Road and wires across Sweet Pond Road while enroute to an earlier call.
Call 68...5/4/10...Engine 1 to Bennett Road for a tree and wires on a house, to check for fire.
Call 69...5/4/10...Fire personnel to Coolidge Highway to close the road due to tree and wires down low over the road.
Call 70...5/4/10...Fire personnel and Brush 1 to Tyler Hill Road to close the road due to trees and wires down.
Call 71...5/4/10...Fire personnel to Creamery Road to close the road due to trees and wires down.
Call 72...5/4/10...Fire personnel and Brush 1 to East Mountain Road close the road due to tree on wires over the roadway and to check the rest of the road.
Call 73...5/4/10...Engine 1 mutual aid to Route 5, Bernardston, Mass. to stand by for a broken utility pole.
Call 74...5/5/10...Engine 1, Engine 3 and Brush 1 to the Vermont Welcome Center for a painting contractor's trailer on fire.
Call 75...5/5/10...Fire personnel to check an unkown fire on Guilford Center Road. It was a campfire.
Call 76...5/6/10...Brush 1 to Carpenter Hill Road for a downed utility pole with a transformer.
Call 77...5/7/10...Engine 1 to Weatherhead Hollow Road for a motor vehicle rollover.
Call 78...5/10/10...EMS personnel to Bonnyvale Road for an ill subject.
Call 79...5/10/10...Brush 1 to Sweet Pond Road for wires down.
Call 80...5/12/10...Engine 1, Brush 1 to Guilford Center Road for a motor vehicle rollover.
Call 81..5/13/10...Brush 1, fire personnel and off road unit to Fort Dummer State Park for a 2nd alarm brush fire. The fire was mostly in Brattleboro, outside the park boundary.
Call 82...5/17/10...Engine 1 to Coolidge Highway (Route 5) at Guilford Center Road for a motor vehicle accident.
Call 83...5/17/10...Tanker 1 mutual aid to Vinegar lane in Putney for an apartment fire.
Call 84...5/23/10...EMS personnel to Briggs Road for a possible medical emergency.
Call 85...5/24/10...Engine 1 mutual aid to Huckel Hill Road in Vernon for a fire alarm sounding.
Call 86...5/24/10...EMS personnel to Borkowski Road for a medical emergency.
The following five calls were due to a severe micro-burst storm in the area, keeping GVFD personnel busy for up to 20 hours.
Call 87...5/26/10...Engine 1 to Coolidge Highway (Route 5) for trees and wires down.
Call 88...5/26/10...Brush 1 to various areas in town for trees and wires down. (Several roads were closed and/or contained hazards, including Hinesburg Road, Stage Road, Guilford Center Road, Carpenter Hill, Bonnyvale Road, Weatherhead Hollow Road, Sweet Pond Road, Tyler Hill Road, Frankilin Road and Coolidge Highway. Some roads remained closed through 5/28/10 and some people still had no power as of 5/29/10.)
Call 89...5/26/10...Tanker 1, Engine 1 mutual aid to Meadow Road in Vernon for a 1st alarm house fire. Unable to get to Vernon due to multiple trees and wires down.
Call 90...5/26/10...Tanker 1, Engine 1 to check a possible fire in a house hit by a fallen tree. Apparatus unable to reach the scene, but fire personnel checked the house.
Call 91...5/27/10...Fire personnel to Coolidge Highway at Slate Rock Road for a TT unit caught in wires.
Call 92...5/28/10...Engine 1 mutual aid to Fort Bridgeman Road in Vernon for a carbon monoxide problem. Units returned as Vernon Fire reported under control.
Call 93...5/29/10...Engine 1 to Stage Road for a tractor fire.
Call 94...5/30/10...Fire personnel to Sweet Pond Road near Borkowski Road for a reported brush fire. It was a smoldering burn pile, under control. Apparatus was held in quarters.
Call 95...5/30/10...EMS personnel to Bonnyvale Road for a medical emergency.
Call 96...5/31/10...Fire and EMS personnel to Sweet Pond Road for a motorcycle accident.
Call 97...5/31/10...EMS personnel to Weatherhead Hollow Road for medical emergency.