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 scattered 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.

[edit] Stations

The county is broken into five battalions, with a total of 32 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	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 (currently under construction - scheduled to open in 2009)	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
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.

[edit] References

Montgomery County Government (May 4, 2004). "Council Approves Changes to Fire & Rescue Services". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.

Glen Echo Fire Department - about GEFD. Glen Echo Fire Department. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.

MCFRS Home Page. Montgomery County Government. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.

Montgomery County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association - about us. Montgomery County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.

Parrish, Warren. "County volunteer firefighters endorse restructuring law", The Gazette Newspapers, June 9, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-01-01.