Rome Fire & Rescue

02/10/2026

10/15/2025

Unfortunately, adding water to a private well is discouraged and, in many cases, not allowed under Maine law. A well isn’t designed to act as a storage tank. If the water table is low, any added water will likely drain away. More importantly, introducing water can contaminate the aquifer with bacteria or other pathogens. For short-term needs, it’s best to use bottled water. Check with your municipality to see if there are any community water resources. You can work with a licensed well driller or pump installer to discuss emergency or long-term solutions, such as installing a cistern or holding tank system that can safely be filled with delivered water, or consider deepening or otherwise modifying your existing well. You can find licensed professionals through the Maine Well Drillers Commission. Find links to more resources and tips on the Maine Drought Task Force web page or the Maine CDC Drinking Water Program’s, Drought in Maine webpage.

09/19/2025

⚠️ATTENTION! ROAD CLOSURE: Castle Island Road will be closed to non-emergency traffic daily from 7am-7pm, September 23-27 to allow CMP to conduct work to improve the resiliency of the energy grid. Please see the detour map for an alternate route.

07/03/2025

Today we placed our new forestry truck into service. This truck came to us through a Forest Service program which brings military trucks to fire departments to be converted into fire trucks. The Assistance to Firefighters Grant helped to furnish a 400 gallon skid unit and donations aided in adding tool boxes for additional bed storage. Although this truck is designed for forest and wildland fires, it will also aid in other emergencies including traffic control, down trees and power lines and backcountry rescues. We would like to thank everyone involved in making this project become reality.

06/21/2025

Wardens Report will be shutting down at the end of this year. Residents will still be able to obtain a free online permit through the Maine Forest Service website or a hand written permit can be written by one of the towns wardens.

*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Warden’s Report will be discontinuing its service at the end of the year 2025. Warden's Report was developed in 2011 and offered to the public in 2012 with a goal to make all burning permits available free of charge to all Maine residences. This goal became reality in October of 2021, when LD 268 was passed into law, doing away with the States $7 fee per permit.

These changes would have never happened if WE didn’t come together and force change.

For those who don’t know the history, Warden’s Report was started in West Gardiner (with approval from the department of ACF) to streamline burning permits and offset cost to the town to have wardens issue them. After going live in 2012 the service quickly gained interest from surround towns. In 2017 the service had spread throughout Southern and Central Maine, adding more than 70 towns. That year, the department of ACF released a statement saying the originial approval of private burn permit systems was an error, and any municipality or resident using those systems could be in violation of state law and subject to charges. Warden’s Report was forced to shut down. Fire officials, residence, Town Officials and other members of the more than 70 communities using the service jumped into action contacting their state representatives. Ultimately July 2017 LD 1640 was passed and Warden’s Report was back in service.

From 2017 to now Warden’s Report has worked with more than 170 communities across Maine, offered close to 500,000 permits since it start in 2012. If those were all seven dollar payments that’s more than a $3 million savings, money that was able to stay in our communities.

The department of ACF has been working hard to update their system, and we feel it is important that they oversee online burning as they will be the ones responding with local fire departments to escaped fires.

Attached is a copy of the sent to town administrators.

02/14/2025

Another storm is on the way this weekend. Northern Maine will see wind chills as low as negative 30. Wind gusts may cause whiteouts and isolated power outages. Check your local forecast for details.