The following is a short overview of when companies were organized in the county.and other important events in the county firedepartment history

March 8 1887 Upper Marlborough Fire Association became the fire incorporated fire company in the county. The Association purchased a hand-drawn hook and ladder Wagon.

 1888 Hyattsville Volunteer Fire became the second fire organized in the county with a Water Barrel Engine.

 October 13 1902 Laurel Fire Department started to provide fire protection to the town of Laurel

 1905 Volunteer Fire Company 1 was established in Capitol Heights

 February 5 1905 Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department became incorporated.

 February 1911 Mount Rainier Fire Department was organized

1913 Riverdale Bucket Brigade was organized to provide fire protection to the town.

1915  Seat Pleasant Volunteer Fire Company was organized

1919 Berwyn Volunteer Fire Department was organized at Branchville and Berwyn Rd's

March 23 1922 Cottage City Fire Company was organized

September 14 1922 Brentwood Fire Company was organized.

August 2 1922 Bladensburg Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 December 1922 Prince George's county Volunteer Fireman Association was organized

 January 23 1923 Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department was organized.

 March 1923 Boulevard Heights Fire Department was organized

 1923 Berwyn Volunteer Fire Department moved to Berwyn Heights

 June 4 1924  A numbering system was established for fire departments by order they joined the association.

 1924 Branchville Volunteer Fire Company was organized also Berwyn Volunteer Fire Department became the Berwyn Heights Fire Company

 March 1924 Marlboro Volunteer Fire Department was organized, they used the fire house and equipment from the Upper Marlborough Fire Association

 March 2 1925 College Park Volunteer Fire Company was organized.

 July 1925 Riverdale Heights Volunteer Fire Company was organized

1926 The Greater Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Company No 2 was organized to replaced the disbanded Sydney Fire Company which was organized sometime during the early 20's,

 1927 The first rescue squad company was organized in the county with a 1927 Buick ambulance

 January 24 1928 Bowie Volunteer Fire Company was organized Two months later they acquired its first fire truck

 April 11 1928 Glenn Dale Volunteer Fire Association was organized

 July 9 1929 Oxon Hill Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 July 15 1929 the second rescue squad in the county was organized in Glenn Dale.

 December 6 1929 Lanham Volunteer Fire Company was organized.

 1930 Tuxedo-Cheverly Volunteer Fire Company was organized.

 December 2 1929 Glen  Dale Volunteer Fire Association opened a new fire station

 1930  Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Company opened a new fire station on 61st Ave.

 December 18 1930 Forestville Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 1932 A cinder block building was constructed on Montgomery St in Laurel as a new fire station.

 March 1932 Accokeek Volunteer Fire Company was organized

 1935 Accokeek Volunteer Fire Company opened a new fire station with a  two-horsepower siren to alert members

 December 28 1936 Clinton Volunteer Fire Company was organized.

1936 .The Greater Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Company No 2 changed its name to Hillside Volunteer Fire Company No 6

 1936 The Greenbelt Public Safety Fire Department was started by the US Government to provide fire protection to the new Greenbelt housing project. (Paid dept.)

 1937 Brentwood Fire Department opened a new fire station

 1939 Glenarden Volunteer Fire Department was organized. with a Ford Model "T' Chemical wagon  

 May 13,1939 Bowie Fire Department opened a new fire station

 1942 District Heights and the West Lanham Hills Volunteer Fire Department were stated.

 1944 Morningside Volunteer Fire Department was organized.

 1945 Morningside Volunteer Fire Department opened their first fire station 

 Noverber 1945 Silver Hill Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 October 1945 Landover Hills Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 1946 Landover Hills Volunteer Fire Department opened their first fire station which was a Quonset hut.

 October 1946 Greenbelt Volunteer Rescue Squad and Chapel Oaks Volunteer Company was organized

 September 26 1946 College Park Volunteer Fire Department  and the University of Maryland opened a new College Park fire station with a training area for county volunteers

 1949 Laurel Rescue Squad was organized

 June 1 1950 Allentown Road Volunteer was organized

 1951 Kentland Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 June 1 1951 Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department was established

 February 5 1952 Laurel Rescue Squad changed its name to Laurel Volunteer Rescue Squad.

 March 1953 Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department opened a new fire station 7901 Riggs Rd

 1955 Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department opened a second fire station on Riggs Rd near Ray Rd

 February 1955 The Greenbelt Public Safety Fire Department was reorganized and became Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Company

 January 31 1955 Brandywine-Aquasco Volunteer Fire Department

 May 1955 Brandywine Volunteer Fire Company was organized after the move of

Brandywine-Aquasco Volunteer Fire Department to Baden to become the Baden Volunteer Fire Department

 1959 Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department opened a second station at Queens Chapel Road and Queensbury Road  and Kentland firefighters opened a new fire house on Landover Road

 1956 Forestville and Riverdale Heights Fire Department opened a new fire stations  

 September 1960 Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department opened a new fire station on Crescent Rd

 1962 Oxon Hill Volunteer Fire Department opened a second station the Glassmanor area

 October 5 1964 Ritchie Volunteer Fire Department was organized

 1965 Bowie Volunteer Fire Department opened a new fire station in the Blair section of the city 

March 1966 The Prince George's County Government began to establish paid firefighter under the County Government Merit System

June 7 1966 Local 1619 was established Alexander Hamilton was elected as President of Local 1619 

   June 14, 1968, the Department of Fire Protection was established. The existing Department of Prevention, Research and Training, Fire / Rescue Communications, and all career fire station personnel were included in the new Department.

1971 Several new bureaus were established under the new county fire department and Larry Woltz was appointed the first county fire chief 

1973 Prince George's County Fire Department establised six battalion within the county,a career captain was asigned to each battalion to oversee career firefighters. 

June 14 1968 The Department of Fire Protection was establishing to oversee paid firefighter who works in the county.

 1971 The Prince George County Fire Department was established with several bureaus, an acting paid fire chief and 300 career firefighters and over 1,000 active volunteer firefighters

 1971 Bowie opened its third fire station in the Pointer Ridge section of the city and Kentland Volunteer opened their second station in the Largo section on the county.  

  In 1973, Prince George’s County became the first jurisdiction in the State of Maryland to mplement the 9-1-1 Emergency Reporting System. This system enabled citizens to call for police, fire, and ambulance service with one convenient and easy to remember numbers

February 15 1973 the first county own fire station open in the Calverton area as Beltsville Fire Station 41 staffed with paid firefighters and volunteer from Beltsville  

 1974 Allentown Road Volunteer Fire Department opened a second station in the Silesia section of the county  

  1975, Chief Woltz retired, and Frank Briguglio was appointed Fire Chief.

 July 31 1975   Three new county owned fire stations opened in Calverton (Co. 41), Bowie (Co 19) and Silesia (Co. 47 ) staffed by career and volunteers

   October 1977, thirty-one firefighters received certification as Cardiac Rescue Technicians (Paramedics). At that time, Mobile Intensive Care Units were placed in service in Brentwood, Silver Hill, and Laurel. It has been estimated that each MICU annually saved the lives of 40 people who would have died without any advanced intervention prior to reaching the hospital

April 1, 1978, Fire Chief Frank Briguglio, age 58, passed away suddenly while vacationing in Florida.

June 6, 1978  M. H. (Jim) Estepp was appointed Fire Chief

  1982, the Department opened the Fire/Rescue Training Academy in Cheltenham

  1989 marked the creation of the Public Safety Director position for the County. Fire Chief Estepp was appointed to the position, and Deputy Chief Steven T. Edwardswas later appointed as Fire Chief

October 6, 1990, members of the fire service came together to dedicate the Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial at the Fire Services Building in Landover Hills

  In late 1992, Chief Edwards retired from the Department to take a position directing the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute. During an interim period, Public Safety Director Estepp returned to lead the Department. In February 1994, Lemuel Roberts was appointed to the office of Fire Chief,

 1992, Chief Edwards retired from the Department to take a position directing the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute. During an interim period, Public Safety Director Estepp returned to lead the Department. In February 1994, Lemuel Roberts was appointed to the office of Fire Chief,

 2006 Mt Rainer, Brentwood and Cottage City Volunteer Fire Department merged into one company Bunker Hill Volunteer Fire Department.

 In April 1996, Fire Chief Lemuel Roberts announced his retirement, and a former Deputy Chief for the City of Atlanta, Georgia , and one time Georgia State Fire Marshal, A. D. Bell, Sr. was appointed to the position of Fire Chief.

 October 1997 Chief A. D. Bell resigned as fire chief

 January 1998. Ronald J. Siarnicki was appointed Fire Chief 

 August 2001 Chief Siarnicki retired  to accept  position directing the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation.

 September 2001  Ronald D. Blackwell became Ffire chief

 August 2004, Fire Chief  Ronald Blackwell left the Department to accept a position as Fire Chief of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Lieutenant Colonel Darrell C. Odom served a brief term

 November 2004, Lawrence H. Sedgwick, Jr., became Prince George’s County Fire Chief.

             October 19, 2009 Prince George's County Fire Department placed Engine 16 in service The station is located in the North View section of Bowie near the Bowie TownCenter on Heath Center Dr

    On Febuary 5 2009  Lawrence H. Sedgwick, Jr retired as Fire Chief  and Edgene Jones became actting fire chief unit July 15 2009 when he was comformed as the new fire  Chief

 On August 2 2009 due to buget and staffing problems Engine Company 44 was disbanded also Truck 5 from Capitol Height Station 805 was placed out of service.

 On Sunday July 18, 2010 Engine Company 44 was reorganized and placed back in service as a  paramedic engine company.