<P> The Volunteer Fire Department ( V.F.D. ) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy , classical learning , and crime prevention within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket . V.F.D. is an abbreviation for various terms related to the organization , which helps to increase the reader 's confusion of what the initials actually stand for . The Baudelaires excepted , the meanings are perfectly clear to the organization 's members . V.F.D. was first mentioned in The Austere Academy when Duncan and Isadora Quagmire were researching Count Olaf . At the climax of the book , they reveal that they have discovered an important secret , but are kidnapped by Olaf before they can tell the Baudelaires . There are mentions of V.F.D. in every book in the series following The Austere Academy . The theme becomes increasingly prominent in subsequent volumes as the Baudelaire orphans investigate the initials ' true meaning , and it appears to figure centrally in their parents ' deaths and the schemes of their enemy , Count Olaf . It eventually transpires that it is the name of a secret organization . The Slippery Slope suggests that V.F.D. stands for ' Volunteer Fire Department ' , among other things ; in The End Lemony Snicket 's narration confirms that ' Volunteer Fire Department ' is the correct meaning of the initials . In The Grim Grotto , it is revealed that while this was the origin of the organization , its members had many other interests . While the name `` Volunteer Fire Department '' connotes a group that actively puts out fires ( metaphorically as well as literally , according to Kit Snicket ) , it can be read to mean a group that actively starts fires ( something of an allusion to the `` firemen '' in Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 ) , which indeed happens when the group is split because of a schism . One group of Schismatics fights fires and the other half are arsonists . When the Schism occurred and exactly why it occurred is unknown , except that it was in the childhood of Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement and that it appears that a line has been drawn between those who stop fires and those who start them . The members of the former are called `` volunteers '' and the members of the latter are called `` villains '' . The `` volunteers '' often appear to be desperate , in that their situation seems to be one of dire straits . It is openly stated that the `` villains '' are growing more powerful and the `` volunteers '' weaker ; however , the epilogue of the thirteenth and final book suggests that after the events therein , the `` volunteer '' half of the organization seems to have survived or recovered , while the `` villain '' half has returned to its former power . The protagonists of the series ( Violet , Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire ) discover that their parents were members of this secret organization , as were many of the guardians they were placed with after their parents ' death , along with various other people they encounter throughout the books . </P>
<P> The Volunteer Fire Department ( V.F.D. ) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy , classical learning , and crime prevention within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket . V.F.D. is an abbreviation for various terms related to the organization , which helps to increase the reader 's confusion of what the initials actually stand for . The Baudelaires excepted , the meanings are perfectly clear to the organization 's members . V.F.D. was first mentioned in The Austere Academy when Duncan and Isadora Quagmire were researching Count Olaf . At the climax of the book , they reveal that they have discovered an important secret , but are kidnapped by Olaf before they can tell the Baudelaires . There are mentions of V.F.D. in every book in the series following The Austere Academy . The theme becomes increasingly prominent in subsequent volumes as the Baudelaire orphans investigate the initials ' true meaning , and it appears to figure centrally in their parents ' deaths and the schemes of their enemy , Count Olaf . It eventually transpires that it is the name of a secret organization . The Slippery Slope suggests that V.F.D. stands for ' Volunteer Fire Department ' , among other things ; in The End Lemony Snicket 's narration confirms that ' Volunteer Fire Department ' is the correct meaning of the initials . In The Grim Grotto , it is revealed that while this was the origin of the organization , its members had many other interests . While the name `` Volunteer Fire Department '' connotes a group that actively puts out fires ( metaphorically as well as literally , according to Kit Snicket ) , it can be read to mean a group that actively starts fires ( something of an allusion to the `` firemen '' in Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 ) , which indeed happens when the group is split because of a schism . One group of Schismatics fights fires and the other half are arsonists . When the Schism occurred and exactly why it occurred is unknown , except that it was in the childhood of Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement and that it appears that a line has been drawn between those who stop fires and those who start them . The members of the former are called `` volunteers '' and the members of the latter are called `` villains '' . The `` volunteers '' often appear to be desperate , in that their situation seems to be one of dire straits . It is openly stated that the `` villains '' are growing more powerful and the `` volunteers '' weaker ; however , the epilogue of the thirteenth and final book suggests that after the events therein , the `` volunteer '' half of the organization seems to have survived or recovered , while the `` villain '' half has returned to its former power . The protagonists of the series ( Violet , Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire ) discover that their parents were members of this secret organization , as were many of the guardians they were placed with after their parents ' death , along with various other people they encounter throughout the books . </P>
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The Volunteer Fire Department ( V.F.D. ) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy , classical learning , and crime prevention
The Volunteer Fire Department ( V.F.D. ) is a secret organization dedicated to the promotion of literacy , classical learning , and crime prevention