In April 2020, MCFRS implemented a Covid-19 Surge Plan which included the staffing of more BLS ambulances, as well as moving ALS providers from AFRA and medic units to chase cars. On, current Fire Chief, Scott Goldstein, was sworn in. Paramedic Engine 702, Paramedic Engine 701, Paramedic Engine 719, Engine 754, Engine 844, Truck 716, Aerial Tower 719, Rescue Squad 742, Medic 701, Battalion Chief 701, Battalion Chief 704, EMS 704, Safety 700, respond and operate on 7A4. *Beeeep* Units operate on 7A4, 1000 Main Street cross street First Avenue house fire. As well as a fast response time with other jurisdictions.Ī typical mutual aide box alarm would sound like:
These numeric assignments are:ĭuring an emergency that would require a response from multiple agencies, dispatchers are quickly able to identify what county a particular piece of apparatus came from. This system is based on the assignment of an individual numeric jurisdictional identifier for each major geographic jurisdiction within the MWCOG. In 2007, MCFRS implemented the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) unit numbering system. Montgomery County works closely with and has mutual aid agreements with Washington, D.C., Fairfax, Frederick, Howard, and Prince George's counties. The county uses an incident command system to coordinate the efforts of paid and volunteer personnel at the scenes of emergencies. However, actual services are delivered from the 19 local fire and rescue companies, who own and operate 25 of the fire stations in 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. In 2001, the MCFRS went to Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia aboard RideOn buses to assist in urban search and rescue (USAR) efforts immediately after the September 11 attacks.
The MCFRS went to Oklahoma City in 1995 to conduct USAR operations after the Oklahoma City bombing. MCFRS personnel with FBI agents at the Pentagon a day after the September 11 attacks in 2001.