On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Washington area families welcomed their loved ones home at The Freedom Salute for Operation: Iraqi Freedom Ceremony at the D.C. Amory. Members of the 547th Transportation Company of the D.C. National Guard returned home from serving our country in Iraq for over a year.
At approximately 1715 hours on Sunday, April 25, 2004 units were dispatched to the 5900 block of Seat Pleasant Drive (Company 8’s first due) for an accident involving a backhoe with someone pinned. Engine 51, Engine 381, Rescue Squad 8, Medic 46, Ambulances 229 and 289, and Volunteer Battalion Chief 1 (Chief 8-McGill) responded.
On Saturday, April 24, 2004 members and career staff from Station 5 joined with the career crew from Station 8 (Seat Pleasant) and a others for the Annual Christmas in April project.
On Sunday, April 18, 2004 at approximately 0600 hours units were dispatched for a reported apartment fire at 4432 68th Place, in Station 30’s first due. Units arrived on the scene to find heavy fire conditions in this four story garden apartment. Multiple apartments were fully involved.
On Saturday, April 10, 2004 at approximately 0314 hours firefighters from the Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Department received a walk-in report that smoke was coming from a house at the intersection of Central Avenue and Suffolk Avenue.
On Friday, April 9, 2004 at approximately 2140 hours Rescue Squad 8 and Ambulance 88 responded to a personal injury accident at Addison Road South and Wilburn Drive.
On March 30, 2004 Ambulance 58 was dispatched for an unknown emergency in Chapel Oaks. However, the crew from Company 5 was unaware that they would soon encounter a little hero.
Shortly after 1800 hours on Saturday, February 21, 2004, units were dispatched for a reported house fire in the 700 block of Capitol Heights Blvd.
More than one-eighth of residential fires are related to the use of supplemental room heaters, such as wood- and coal-burning stoves, kerosene heaters, gas space heaters, and electrical heaters.
On February 1, 2004 at approximately 0845 hours a box alarm was dispatched to the Capitol Heights Metro Station for a train derailment with possible fire.
The Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Department is a non-profit organization that provides fire and emergency services for the town of Capitol Heights and surrounding communities. We are located about 5 miles from our nation’s capital, in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Our station is staffed both by career and volunteer personnel.