Name: Glen Echo Fire Department
Item: Glen Echo Fire Department
Author: Volunteer Recruiter

Glen Echo Fire Department (GEFD) is a combination career-volunteer department located in the southeast corner of Montgomery County. We are a small department with around 30 active members who come from all walks of life. Our membership includes college students, parents, attorneys, scientists, dog walkers, military personnel, and engineers, just to name a few.

There are wonderful, interesting people at Glen Echo Fire Department, and the atmosphere is not only professional, but also fun and welcoming—we take great pride in thinking of ourselves as a family and as having a “firehouse” rather than a “fire station.”

Some of our more senior members will tell you that they started as volunteers thinking they would just stick with it for a couple years, only to find that their experience at Glen Echo was something they were unwilling to leave behind. Several of our volunteers—some of whom will tell you they never would have dreamed of becoming doctors or nurses-have found their calling while members of the department and have subsequently gone on to medical school or nursing school, or have become physician assistants.

We are particularly proud of our strong EMS program and our rapidly growing group of volunteer paramedics. While some of our volunteers are also trained as firefighters, they stay at Glen Echo because they love our dedication to EMS and our small, supportive community.

We are also the closest volunteer firehouse to American University, and many of our members are Eagles. We’re located right on several bus lines and are less than a mile from where Massachusetts Avenue intersects the Capital Crescent Trail (a paved bike path linking Georgetown, downtown Bethesda, and other locations), so it’s easy to get to us.

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