White Marsh Volunteer Fire Department

General Motors intends to give land near its plant on Philadelphia Road toward White Marsh Volunteer Fire Co. for future development as a fire section and community building.

General Motors Baltimore Operations, which produces transmissions and electric motors in White Marsh, will give above six miles near its plant, in which a nearly 20, 000-square-foot, single-story fire house and neighborhood building will likely to be constructed.

The volunteer fire business runs from a section on Ebenezer path which was built-in the 1940s and faces difficulties such from traffic additionally the CSX railway line, which sometimes blocks the street. The place is also in a flood plain and cannot be broadened or reconstructed, stated Kevin Palmer, president of the White Marsh fire business.

Fire officials have been dealing with General Motors and community for 3 years on plans for a place.

"This move enables us to raised serve our neighborhood, which has cultivated quickly over the last a decade, well to the future, " Palmer stated in statement.