Tremont Hosts First Responders Community Day
Sep 10, 2025
BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Fire Department responded September 10, to a smoke smell inside Mount Desert Island High School that was discovered just before the start of the school day.
The smoke smell was strong enough to prompt a call out for mutual aid. Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont Volunteer Fire Department, Trenton Volunteer Fire Department, and Ellsworth Fire Department also responded. Ellsworth responded with its rapid intervention team.
The smell also prompted a two-hour delay for the start of school.
The departments cleared by 8 a.m., and the school will maintain it’s two-hour delay schedule.
According to scanner traffic, the likely cause of the smell is a motor fan in the heating system. There was no fire.
TREMONT FIRST RESPONDERS DAY IS THIS SATURDAY
Join the Tremont first responders for a community event hosted by the Tremont Fire Department, Southwest Harbor/Tremont Ambulance Service, A Climate to Thrive and Healthy Acadia.
It will be held Saturday, September 13, at the Tremont Town Office from 9 am to 1 pm.
You can trade your old extinguisher for a new one (or get an extinguisher or fire blanket for a small donation).
There will be hands-on training for fire extinguishers and fire blankets
You can meet your firefighters and EMTs and get a home first-aid kit from Carroll Drug
Maybe you’d like to see inside an ambulance and hop on a fire truck.
Feeling stressed? Try Mindfulness and Tai Chi with Healthy Acadia Food Glorious food! Get breakfast from Eat-a-Pita, lunch from Hansen’s Outpost Art meets Science:
Wondering what’s up with Tremont’s new Public Safety Building? You can find out with Tremont Town Manager.
And you can “Meet the Chiefs” with a Q&A with Fire Chief Higgins and Ambulance Service Chief Cousins.
To learn more, go here!
PHOTOS: Shaun Farrar/Bar Harbor Story
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