Video: Water supply issues not helped by the snow in Colchester, Vermont.

“Vermont should be beautiful this time of year.”  The recurring line in the movie White Christmas may not work for you if you are trying to hand lay lines through thigh high snow drifts. Just part of the problem for the Colchester Center VFC shares with us in this video of a house fire at the end of a one-lane road with no hydrants in site.

As FireTruckBlog.com pointed out the other day, there’s a man in Diorite, Michigan who knows just what to do when faced with this scenario (wonder if the homeowner tried it in this case, because there is what appears to be a snowblower sitting outside the garage). As you will see in the video, the fire chief thinks, rather than a snowblower, residential sprinklers are the answer.

Here’s what CCVFC wrote about the fire

The house was well involved upon our arrival. Recent heavy snowfall and narrow roads made it impossible to save much of this $875,000 home on Lake Champlain. The CCVFC called for mutual aid from the Malletts Bay, Milton and Georgia Fire departments. The home was located 3/4 of a mile up a one-lane dead end road, so each tankers had to wait for the one ahead of it to drive in, dump, turn around and get back out before proceeding. The house had an automatic security/fire alarm notification system, which called in the fire. The homeowners escaped with only minor burns.