High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! V.F.D. is a mysterious secret organization within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The purposes of the organization are never made clear, although the name of the organization—presumably an initialism for Volunteer Fire Department—is connected to various interpretations of the word "fire". V.F.D. members have been known to participate in various and often unusual intellectual pursuits, activist (though sometimes illicit) enterprises, and undercover activities, for example: cryptography, disguise training, crime prevention, espionage, animal conditioning projects, and social change. The organization`s most known tenets include both extreme secrecy and dedication to the organization itself, with membership beginning from early childhood and seemingly based strongly on family ties.