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Saturday, August 4, 2012

New Fire Station Coming To Darnestown Road, Shady Grove Intersection

Montgomery County officials broke ground Thursday on the new Travilah Fire Station, according to a report by WAMU.

  • POLICE & FIRE
  • Greg Cohen
  • Saturday, August 4, 2012

Montgomery County officials broke ground Thursday on a new fire station at the corner of Shady Grove Road and Darnestown Road, WAMU reported. The Travilah Fire Station will serve the Gaithersburg-Rockville-North Potomac region which has grown rapidly since a temporary station was opened decades ago, fire chief Richard Bowers told WAMU. "We used to call it the little green house on the prairie, because the only thing that was here was the fire station," says Bowers. "There was nothing behind us." The Travilah station will sit across from the University of Maryland, Shady Grove campus, with the county's Life Sciences Center and Shady Grove Adventist Hospital nearby. The new station is approximately 4 miles west of Rockville Volunteer Fire …

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Groups Donate Pet Oxygen Masks to Fire Department

Sixty oxygen masks designed for animals were donated to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

When Darnestown resident Lorie White's home caught fire last year, the first thing - or things - she sought to save were her animals. Luckily, with the help of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, White's dogs, cats, parrots and horses were evacuated from the flames unscathed. "You only have a split second," White said. "Things can be replaced, but you can never get over the loss of a family member - two-legged or four-legged." As a token of her gratitude, White decided to donate one oxygen kit designed especially for animals to Fire Station 31 - the first responders to her house fire. Eventually, that small gift blossomed into an even larger donation. Two area groups donated 60 animal oxygen masks to the Montgomery County Fire …

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Laura L Thornton

3:34 pm on Friday, October 28, 2011

What a great story. Thanks for reporting on this, Lauren!   more ›

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