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20 Stone St, Walpole, MA 02081

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Welcome to the Walpole Fire Department information web site

 

The Walpole Fire Department serves the citizens of Walpole,  24 hrs a day, 7 days a week with its 34 Full time Firefighters, Paramedics, and Chief Officers with  Full time Advanced Life Support EMS and fire prevention/suppression staff from our 1 station.

Walpole Fire Activity for 2009.

2009 was the first time in 4 years there has been a decrease of emergencies for the Town of Walpole.  For the past year the Walpole Fire Department responded to 2,874 emergency calls.  In this same year personnel managed to do an additional 1,813 inspections and fire drills.

The 2009 summary of activity is now available on our Activities page.

Wildfire... Are You Prepared?

 

 

Night Before the Fourth Celebration information

Saturday July 3, 2010

Parade of Fire Trucks starts at 6:00 pm in East Walpole ending in the Center of Town.

Music, and refreshments will be avalible until the Fireworks dispaly starting at 9:30 pm

 

 

Notices

Effective July 1, 2009, responsibility for administering the tank registration and compliance inspection provisions of the Massachusetts Underground Storage Tank (UST) Program (527 CMR 9.00) will be transferred from the Department of Fire Services (DFS) to the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). Click the link to go directly to the DEP web site for information, forms and MassDEP contacts.

 

 

A notice to homeowners and realtors selling a home.

Effective April 5, 2010 there will be changes in the law regulating the installation of smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. CLICK HERE to go to the fire prevention page for residents for a summary of the changes and a link to the guide on smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

 

 

 

Open Burning Season for 2010 is closed as of May 1, 2010. Open burning does not begin until January 15, 2011. There will be a $15.00 permit required to conduct open burning. Permits and regulations are avalible at the Center Fire Station at 20 Stone St. Open burning is for BRUSH ONLY, leaves, pine neddles or grass are PROHIBITED. Until then all brush, Leaves and grass trimmings may be brought to the Robbins Road compost facility; a permit is required please click here for more information.

 

 

Walpole Public School, Food Service Employees take part in fire extinguisher training. (click to see).

 

 

A reminder to all residents of Walpole: You must have your house number displayed on your home so that is it clearly visible from the street.

 

 

 

Add/Remove/Update Your Contact InformationIn our efforts to provide more reliable communications with Residents (and Businesses) in the town, we have implemented Swiftreach Networks, Inc. as our Emergency Notification service provider.

Swift911™ in its simplest form is a system that makes phone calls to specific people or areas in the event of an emergency or for sharing important information. All the calls you receive will have the Caller ID of 'Town of Walpole' or 'Walpole Police Department'. 

If you are not receiving these calls, please click the link above to go to the towns sign up page and add or update your contact information.  You may also remove yourself from our lists.

 

 

extinguisherNew fire safety information sheets available under the Fire Safety Tips section.