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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Pete Piringer provides some fireplace safety tips for this winter season: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming. Visit the MCFRS website for more information or to schedule a free safety visit by a firefighter.

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services unit were dispatched at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday to a collision on the inner loop of the beltway between Connecticut Avenue and Georgia Avenue, responding to a personal injury collision. According to Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer, one person was treated and transported with non serious injuries. […]

A water main break shut down several businesses in Silver Spring’s Long Branch neighborhood on Wednesday morning. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) crews were called to the scene of a 12-inch water main break in the 8700 block of Flower Avenue. WSSC crews shut off the water so repairs could begin on the 90-year-old main. A […]

The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce will honor Upcounty police officers, special operations teams, firefighters and paramedics at their 20th Annual Public Safety Awards Breakfast. The event will be held on Friday, August 14 from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, Harvest Building, 16 Chestnut Street, Gaithersburg. This year we will honor the county’s, National […]

UPDATED Dec. 31 –Montgomery County Fire Chief Steve Lohr retired on Dec. 31 and the chief spent the days leading up to his retirement saying goodbye to many of his fire and rescue services coworkers as part of his “farewell retirement tour.” News of the chief’s pending retirement was announced in a memo at the […]

The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce honored Upcounty Police Officers, Firefighters and Paramedics at their 19th Annual Public Safety Awards Breakfast. The event was held on Friday, August 8 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg. This year we honored 57 of the County’s, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fire Department & the City of […]

U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin, together with U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen (all D-Md.) have announced the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service has been awarded $86,450 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) grants, a part of the Assistance to Firefighters Grants Program […]