Ritchie Volunteer Fire Dept.

03/16/2026

3/14/26 Box 18-05

Engine 837 Runs House Fire 5200 block Shamrock’s Delight Dr in Fairwood.

03/07/2026

02/27/26

*Late Post*

E837 runs gas line fire… A damaged gas line ignited, sending flames into the air and injuring a utility worker.
The fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. near the intersection of Powder Mill Road and Cherry Hill Road in Beltsville

03/05/2026

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03/04/2026

09/17/2025

🔥 Engine 37 responds for an auto fire in the First Due. Crew quickly deployed the bumper line and extinguished the fire before returning to service 🔥

09/16/2025

👩‍🚒🔥 over the past few weeks our probationary members spend numerous hours training on different skills, From donning PPE, learning the significance of SCBA familiarization, to keeping our apparatus and equipment clean and ready for service. Keeping the tradition Building the foundation for success.

We are proud to see the next generation of RVFD firefighters stepping up to the challenge. 🚒💪

09/11/2025

🚒🔥 Putting in the work! Lieutenant Ball and Chief 37 along with the rest of the crew out on the first due sharpening skills during driver’s training. Always learning, always improving.

09/09/2025

The Ritchie Volunteer Fire Department want to give a HUGE thank you to for providing the crew with dinner while they provide fire protection and emergency services to the local area

09/07/2025

9/5/25 While cleaning up from a auto fire on walkermill Dr the crew hit the beltway south to box 32-07 for a house on fire with multiple calls. first arriving units reported fire showing from a split foyer with an exposure problem and requested the working fire dispatch. The engine operated on division 1 before being released from the fire ground.

08/05/2025

Engine company 37 was dispatched as the second due engine to the 5800 block of Auth Road for the reported house fire with one trapped. Engine 823 arrived to find a 2 story cape cod with fire showing, they took their own plug on the alpha side and stretched. Engine company 37 arrived and took a position to reverse lay if need be to another hydrant, the officer and lineman stretched to division 2. The engine company knocked the majority of the fire, keeping a line in place so ladder 25 could search for the reported missing child who was found upstairs, and removed from the bravo side window.

06/11/2025

The Engine is transferred to Engine 17 while they operate on a Two alarm fire.