The Wilton Fire Department is headquartered at the Town Hall Municipal Campus. It serves 26.8 square miles of town and 18,000 residents.
All told, the department has 30 personnel with 16 line firefighters, four Captains, four Lieutenants, two in the Fire Marshal’s Office, a Fire Chief and a Deputy Fire Chief, an Apparatus Maintenance Supervisor, and an administrative secretary between the main station and Station 2, also known as Marhoffer Station. The stations provide 24-hour fire, rescue and emergency medical services and hazardous material mitigation.
The station has three fire pumpers, one ladder truck and one pumper/tanker—all have medical equipment on board. The department also owns a utility pickup truck, a HazMat vehicle, a small amphibious all-terrain vehicle and five staff and support vehicles.
Chief Paul Milositz presides over the department. David Kohn is Wilton's fire marshal and Rocco Grosso is the fire inspector.
In 2008, the station responded to 1,624 calls. Those included 497 fire and alarm calls, 786 EMT calls and 341 other calls.