Glen Echo Fire Department

Glen Echo Fire Department is part of Montgomery County, Maryland’s fire service. It’s located in west Bethesda, near Friendship Heights. Glen Echo is a combination career/volunteer station that runs an ambulance, an engine, a paramedic chase car, and an ATV. There are five career personnel at the station at all times, and volunteer shifts of up to seven people bump up the staffing on evenings, weekends, holidays, summer break, etc.

Glen Echo Fire Department's primary response area consists of zip code 20816 and portions of 20817 and 20815, though its units are frequently dispatched further afield.

Glen Echo runs roughly 2,400 calls a year. Our most common dispatch is “injured person from a fall,” but we run everything from car crashes to heart attacks to overdoses to cardiac arrests.

In addition, Glen Echo participates in a number of community outreach activities, such as event stand-bys, CPR classes, and birthday parties.

There are many student volunteer opportunities at the fire station. We host an annual Open House, Santa Runs, various parades in the communities we serve, as well as CPR instruction, attendance at community events, signing up new volunteers, Spring Cleaning, and community outreach programs.