Newport Center Volunteer Fire Department

Newport Center, in the Town of Newport, Orleans County, Vermont.

A field almanac of the year on call, kept for the people who live inside it.

Every call in Newport Center is answered by someone who volunteered for it. This page is an independent design concept, built only from what the department and the town have already published, and organized the way a Northeast Kingdom year actually runs.

Get a burn permit Support the department

Concept emblem. Drawn for this design study by Frontline Web Designs. It is not the department's insignia and has never been used by the department.

The year on call

A volunteer department's year is seasonal, and so is what it needs from its town. Three things run across these twelve months, and every one of them is something a neighbor can actually do.

The seasonsHow the Kingdom year is usually counted, and how this almanac is laid out.

Winter

Mud season

Green season

Leaf down

Winter

The months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Burn permits A year round question, not a spring one. Call the Town Fire Warden, Mike Beaumier, at 802-334-5108 before you burn. Some fires need a permit and some do not, and in a dry spell none are issued at all, so the warden is the one to ask.

Ask the warden before you burn, any month of the year 802-334-5108

Town support March. Vermont towns meet and vote in March. That is the room where a neighbor speaks up for the department's place in the town budget.

Town meeting

Community night October. The station has opened its doors for a Trunk or Treat on Halloween night, costumes and hot chocolate. Confirm this year's date on the department's Facebook page.

Trunk or Treat

What is not on this band is deliberate. No call counts, no roster size, no apparatus list and no response times appear anywhere on this page, because the department has not published them and a design concept has no business inventing them.

Before you light anything, call the warden

This is the most useful phone number on the page, and it is the one thing the town already publishes about the department. One call, before the match.

Town Fire Warden

Mike Beaumier

802-334-5108

Residents of the Town of Newport contact the fire warden for a burn permit. Call ahead, not during.

Note, confirm locally
The department has told residents about Vermont's Act 162 and its effect on who serves as a town fire warden. Roles can change year to year, so check with the town office if you need to know who currently holds it.

A permit is not an emergency line

If there is a fire, an injury, a car in a ditch or smoke you cannot place, call 911. Dispatch pages the volunteers. Do not call the warden and do not message a Facebook page.

Why the department cares

An unpermitted brush pile that gets away is a page out to people who left work, dinner or bed to answer it. The permit call is the cheapest favor you can do them all year.

The town's own page is a stub

Today the burn permit number is essentially the only thing published about this department online. That gap is exactly why this concept exists, and why the number sits at the top of the almanac.

March is when the town decides

Vermont towns still settle their business face to face in March. A volunteer department's budget line is decided by neighbors in a room, which means support is a thing you do out loud, on a specific day, not a thing you feel.

The town has said thank you in print

The Town of Newport's 2023 annual report thanked the Newport Center Volunteer Fire Department for its continued support. That is the town's own language, in the town's own document.

What support looks like in March

Read the warning. Show up. Ask what the department needs before you vote. An unopposed line item is not the same as a supported one, and volunteers notice the difference.

Support the rest of the year

Message the department's Facebook page or write the chief's address on the contact card below and ask what would actually help. Ask first, buy second. Departments have specific gaps.

October, when the station opens its doors

Once a year the apparatus bay stops being the place your worst night starts and becomes the place your kid gets candy. It is the department's easiest introduction to its own town.

Trunk or Treat at the station

The department has hosted a Trunk or Treat on Halloween night, roughly 6pm to 9pm, with a costume contest and hot chocolate. Come in costume, meet the crew, and see where the truck actually lives.

Confirm before you go
This event is described from the department's own Facebook posts and the date is not re-confirmed for the current year. Check the department's Facebook page before loading the car.

Every one of them is a volunteer

The word is in the department's own name, on its own public page, and in the town's annual report. Nobody here is paid to leave the dinner table, which is the single fact that should shape how a town treats its fire department.

Thinking about joining

Volunteer departments in small Vermont towns generally train people who arrive with nothing but willingness. Ask the department directly what the requirements are here, rather than trusting a page like this one.

How to ask

Message the department's Facebook page, or email ncvfdchief1@gmail.com. Both routes are published by the department. There is no application form on this page and nothing here collects your information.

Support counts too

Not everyone can run a call. Showing up in March, calling for a permit, and turning up in October are all real support. A department is carried by the people who never wear the gear.

Soft note, unconfirmed
A department post about 2025 officer elections named Jason Willis as chief. Officers rotate, so confirm current leadership with the department before addressing anyone by title.

How to reach the department

Every route below is one the department or the town already publishes. Nothing on this page is a form and nothing here sends or stores anything.

Emergency: 911Fire, medical, crash, smoke you cannot place. Dispatch pages the volunteers.
Burn permits: Town Fire Warden, Mike Beaumier
802-334-5108Call before any outdoor burning in the Town of Newport.
Facebook page: Newport Center Volunteer Fire Department on FacebookThe department's only active public channel, and the place to confirm event dates.
Email: ncvfdchief1@gmail.comPublished by the department on its Facebook page.
Station: 144 Cross Rd, Newport Center, VT 05857Not staffed around the clock. Never drive to the station in an emergency, call 911.
Town office address: 102 Vance Hill Rd, Newport Center, VT 05857The mailing address the Town of Newport lists for the department.

There is deliberately no contact form here. A department that runs on volunteers should not have messages sitting in an inbox nobody owns, so every route above goes straight to a channel the department already reads.