Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen/Vermilion City

Vermilion City is a city in Kanto. Situated near a sea inlet to the south, and serves as a popular sea port for ships such as the S.S Anne.

Vermilion City is home to the "Lightning American" Lt. Surge, the Gym Leader of the Electric-specialist Gym.

The people in the town are careful about pollution, as they're afraid of an infestation of could occur if the seas were ever polluted.

There's a man using a to build a house on cleared off land in the north side of the city.

There is also the Pokémon Fan Club which is located right above the Gym.

Trade Spearow
You can also find a little girl in the house next door to the Fan Club who wants to trade a Spearow for a.

Vermilion Harbor is a home port for many ships. The S.S. Anne sails around the world and returns to Vermilion once a year.

Aside from the Harbor, the other exits to the city are Route 11 and Diglett's Cave to the east. North of the city is Route 6.

Items

 * Bike Voucher (Received from head of Pokémon Fan Club)

Vermilion City Gym
If you came to Vermillion City hoping you can do a quick dash to the gym and leave, you're in for a big surprise. There's a tree blocking the only route on land! Don't panic. If you've got the S.S. Anne Ticket from Bill, Head Over to S.S. Anne for some well needed training to Fight the Lightning American.Lt. Surge will be using Electric Pokémon so Any Water or Flying Pokemon you send out against him are going to be fried, especially from his supercharged. It's highly suggested that you grab one of the ever-abundant before going on to S.S. Anne. you can get them from Diglett's Cave. When your feel ready to fight for your third badge, after getting Hm01 (Cut) from the S.S. Anne captain. Use it on a Pokemon that's not a major team member, since you can't take out HM moves until a long time from now (so don't teach or  Cut, please). When that's all sorted out, use cut from the Pokemon you taught it to (make sure its in your party), and proceed to challenge Lt. Surge.

Lt. Surge's Gym


 * Sailor Dwayne


 * Enginner Bailey


 * Gentleman Tucker


 * Gym Leader Lt. Surge

Once you have beaten the trainers, you receive the Thunder Badge, TM34 - It will increase the speed of your Pokémon a little bit, and let you use HM02 (Fly) outside of battle.