What's New

2008 Summer Carnival is schedule for September again this year. We are unsure if we will be able to use the same site on Fairland Road between Route 29 and Old Columbia Pike due to the construction for the Inter County Connector. If you have any ideas for property that we may be able to use, please let us know!

Christmas is almost here and Santa Claus is coming to town! Check Santa's schedule to see when Santa will be visiting your neighborhood.

Our Annual Open House is coming up on October 14th, 2007 from 12 PM to 4 PM. Please bring your kids of all ages for a fun and educational experience. This year, we will have displays and demonstrations featuring many types of fire rescue services, police specialty units, a live rescue squad vehicle extrication demo (think "Jaws of Life"), and fun activities for all ages to participate in. Of course, you will be able to see, touch, and learn about all of our high-tech fire, rescue, and emergency medical services equipment, including our new Rescue Squad 15!

The Sixteenth Annual Summer Carnival will again cover a two week-end period from 9/6-9 (Thu-Sun) and 9/12-15 (Wed-Sat) in 2007. The carnival will open at 6:30pm nightly and remain open until 10pm on weeknights and until 11pm on Friday and Saturday. Sundays hours will be 1pm-6pm. The location will remain the same at the intersections of Route 29, Fairland Rd., and Old Columbia Pike. Family nights will be Thu 9/6, Sun 9/9, Wed 9/12 and Thu 9/13. On those nights, each person who buys the braclet will be able to ride all of the rides as many times as they want until 10pm. Otherwise you can buy individual tickets or save money and buy books of 20 and 40 tickets. We believe that the number of tickets needed ranges from 2 tickets for the kiddie rides up to 5 tickets.

On site parking is available, and we are asking for a $2 donation for that. For you safety, please don't park elsewhere and walk. Please make sure to stop by the BVFD Food Tent featuring Hamburgers, Cheesburgers, Hot Dog, Sodas, Water, and our delicious French Fries. 100% of the proceeds from the parking and food tent go directly to the BVFD. Please bring the family out for a great night of family fun!

Some rides have height requirements, so please check those out before purchasing tickets. Ticket prices posted here are as accurate as possible, but are subject to change.

Get directions to our 2007 carnival.

We just held our first Recruitment Day on Saturday, April 28th, 2007. We were very excited to see a decent turnout for our first attempt. Thank you for everyone that came out to participate and hopefully we can make this an annual event.

Our Annual Open House is coming up on October 15th, 2006 from 11 AM to 4 PM. Please bring your kids of all ages for a fun and educational experience. This year, we will have displays and demonstrations featuring many types of fire rescue services, police specialty units, a live rescue squad vehicle extrication demo (think "Jaws of Life"), and fun activities for all ages to participate in. Of course, you will be able to see, touch, and learn about all of our high-tech fire, rescue, and emergency medical services equipment, including our new Rescue Squad 15!

For the first time this year, there will be good food available free for all attendees courtesy of Carbeque, and we have some new kids' activities in store as well. Radio station WMZQ will be with us for a live broadcast and will have free Turkey Hill ice cream available. Come by and have a good time learning about fire safety and how the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department serves our community. Call 301-384-8058 if you have any questions.

We are currently holding our annual door-to-door Portrait Fundraiser. BVFD representatives are in your neighborhood going door to door asking for donations in exchange for a free portrait. These representatives will have a letter explaining the program that also has the station phone numbers. Each donar will be sent a postcard with the date and time that they should come to the station to have their picture taken. If you can't make the scheduled time, you may be able to come to any of the photo shoots. The first photo shoot is scheduled for Sunday, 10/29 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The showing for pictures taken on 10/29 will be on 11/12 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Seibel¹s Restaurant is once again sponsoring its annual Dine for Charity. For four weeks, September 14 through October 12, Seibel¹s dining customers will be given a Charity Ballot with their bill. Each customer on every visit will have the opportunity to select the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department to receive a donation of 5% of the amount of the their bill. Seibel¹s will post weekly results in the restaurant and on our website at seibelsrestaurant.com. Seibel¹s is located at 15540 Old Columbia Pike in downtown Burtonsville.

In late 2001 and early 2002, the BVFD set out to do what we could do to support the Nation in a time of need. We held three intersection collections at Route 198 and Route 29. The community in which we serve responded. With your help we have collected over $52,000. 100 % of that money will go to the families of the fallen New York City firefighters. We would like to thank those that helped make our collection such a success. We would also like to apologize for causing a traffic backup during rush hour, but please remember that there are thousands of people from New York that were far more inconvenienced than we are. Again, thanks.

The BVFD set a call record of over 4100 calls in 1999, and we ran at a slightly slower pace in 2000 with a little over 4000 runs. The BVFD is pleased to announce an upgrade of service to the Burtonsville area. We received paramedic unit staffing on the first of the year. We have moved from 5 day career firefighters to 6 daytime career members. Also we have received a new pumper to replace our old reserve pumper. It is a Pierce 1250 gpm dual stage pumper with a Dash 2000 cab with seating for 8.

And as always if you should any comments, suggestions, or constructive criticism, please, we invite you to email us. And always thank you for visiting our web site.