- Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service (Maryland)
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The Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Montgomery County, Maryland. The services are provided by a combination of paid county personnel and volunteer members of the various independent, non-profit volunteer fire and rescue corporations located throughout the county.
In 2004, the County Council passed legislation to reorganize the Fire & Rescue Service by placing all personnel, career and volunteer, under the command of a single fire chief. However, actual services are delivered from the 19 local fire and rescue companies. The county uses an incident command system to coordinate the efforts of paid and volunteer personnel at the scenes of emergencies.
Stations
The county is broken into five battalions, with a total of 34 fire stations and 2 rescue companies.
Station # Battalion Location Volunteer Corporation 1 1st Downtown Silver Spring Silver Spring FD 2 1st Takoma Park Takoma Park FD 3 3rd Rockville Rockville VFD 4 4th Sandy Spring Sandy Spring VFD 5 4th Kensington Kensington VFD 6 2nd Downtown Bethesda Bethesda FD 7 2nd Chevy Chase Chevy Chase FD 8 5th Gaithersburg / Montgomery Village Gaithersburg-Washington Grove VFD 9 5th Hyattstown Hyattstown FD 10 2nd Cabin John Cabin John Park VFD 11 2nd Glen Echo Glen Echo FD 12 1st White Oak Hillandale VFD 13 5th Damascus Damascus VFD 14 3rd Beallsville Upper Montgomery VFD 15 1st Burtonsville Burtonsville VFD 16 1st Four Corners Silver Spring FD 17 5th Laytonsville Laytonsville VFD 18 4th Glenmont Kensington VFD 19 1st Montgomery Hills Silver Spring FD 20 2nd Cedar Lane Bethesda FD 21 4th Parkland Kensington VFD 22 3rd Kingsview Montgomery County Fire & Rescue 23 3rd Twinbrook Rockville VFD 24 1st Colesville Hillandale VFD 25 4th Aspen Hill Kensington VFD 26 2nd Democracy Boulevard Bethesda FD 27 N/A Training Academy Designation Montgomery County Fire & Rescue 28 5th Derwood Gaithersburg-Washington Grove VFD 29 3rd Germantown Germantown VFD 30 2nd Potomac Cabin John Park VFD 31 3rd North Potomac Rockville VFD 33 3rd Falls Road Rockville VFD 34 5th Milestone Montgomery County Fire & Rescue 35 5th Clarksburg Montgomery County Fire & Rescue 40 4th Olney Sandy Spring VFD R1 2nd Bethesda-Chevy Chase Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad R2 4th Wheaton Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad BOLD indicates the Battalion Chief's quarters.
References
"Council Approves Changes to Fire & Rescue Services" (Press release). Montgomery County Government. May 4, 2004. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/council/pdf/archive/pr/2004/0504fire.pdf. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
"Glen Echo Fire Department - about GEFD". Glen Echo Fire Department. Archived from the original on 2006-07-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20060715181941/http://www.gefd.org/about/default.asp. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
"MCFRS Home Page". Montgomery County Government. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/firtmpl.asp?url=/Content/FireRescue/index.asp. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
"Montgomery County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association - about us". Montgomery County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association. http://www.mcvfra.org/base.cgim?template=About_Us. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
Parrish, Warren (June 9, 2004). "County volunteer firefighters endorse restructuring law". The Gazette Newspapers. http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2004/200424/olney/news/220765-1.html. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
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