North Beach Volunteer Fire Department

The North Beach Volunteer fire division, Inc got its certificate of incorporation on Augest 4, 1926. We were included as a non-profit business for the intended purpose of safeguarding life and home in North seashore and surrounding vicinity, which in the early days moved because far south as Solomon's Island. Most of the initial charter members resided in the North seashore location. Here is a list of the first trustees and charter members.

President, Jacob Delp
Vice-president, Merrill Ward
Secretary, Robert G. Wickes
Treasurer, Oscar Marshell
Fire Chief, Willard S. Ward Sr.

Arthur Clark
Clarence King
Marion Tucker
Wade Tucker
Benard Loveless
Wilbert Ware
Robert S. Meade

With its early days of procedure the fire division operated regarding a storage in North seashore. This continued for many months ahead of the first fire section ended up being built at Third and Dayton Avenue. The land used for this was station ended up being deeded towards the North seashore Volunteer Fire division, Inc., By Mrs. Dora western on October 27, 1926. In the early days of solution portable chemical extinguishers were put at numerous street corners to aid with extinguishing fires. When you look at the belated 1920's our very first fire engine had been bought, this was a used 1925 Studabaker. Ambulance solution failed to start through to the middle 1960's once we bought a 1965 intercontinental Vacation All. As neighborhood grew, so did the fire department. In 1973 the Dunkirk Fire facility that was referred to as North Beach company 5 ended up being annexed. This annexation lasted until the very early 1980's if the connections had been severed between our two businesses. On September 1, 1973 we leased the land where in fact the old-school home had been situated to make the latest fire station, which we presently reside in these days. The Calvert County Commissioners leased the land to us. We moved into the current building in August of 1976. We have more than 100 people. We currently work 2 motors, 2 ambulances, a rescue pumper, a tower, a rescue ship, a fireboat and various support cars. Additionally soon we want to rehab our building with brand-new bunkrooms, brand new offices, a lounge, a new online game space, a new education space, and lots a storage space.