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Join the KVFD team as a volunteer firefighter/EMS provider, or auxiliary or administrative member. There’s a place for you! Learn more about our types of membership and how to become a member on our Join page. 

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Our volunteers spend hours of their time training, manning our apparatus, and responding to your calls for service! This level of commitment shown by our KVFD volunteers is made possible by the generosity of those who have previously contributed donations and those who continue to do so. 

STEPS TO MEMBERSHIP

After your application has been reviewed and your references verified, you will be contacted by phone or email to schedule an interview. Interviews generally run 30-45 minutes in length. Visit our Steps to Membership page to learn more.

Our Stations

Station 5 – Old Town

Kensington Station 5 is located at 10620 Connecticut Avenue, on the corner with Plyers Mill Road, in Old Town Kensington.

Station 18 – Glenmont

Kensington Station 18 is at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Mason Street in the heart of the Glenmont community

Station 21 – The Village

Kensington Station 21 is located on the corner of Viers Mill and Gaynor Roads on the southern border of the Aspen Hill community.

Station 25 – Aspen Hill

Kensington Station 25 is located at Connecticut Avenue and Bel Pre Road in the heart of the Aspen Hill community.

Mission Statement

The mission of KVFD is to serve the community with the highest quality fire suppression, emergency medical and rescue response, community education, fire prevention, and to train, support, equip and protect volunteers to perform these services professionally and with an e ‘spirit d’ corps.

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March is #WomensHistoryMonth and we want to spotlight KVFD President Lynn M. Tantardini. She joined KVFD in October 1990 as an associate member to do administrative duties like helping around the firehouse, planning activities, and attending events, in addition to helping the auxiliary. In June 1993 she was elected to the Trial Board. In June 1994 she was elected as the secretary of the department, taking on responsibilities like taking minutes, correspondence, and accountability for the Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) and reporting all members statistics to the County under the LOSAP program. In August 2018, she was elected as the President of KVFD and is the longest sitting board member, and the first female president in the department’s history.

“Obviously, times have changed since I joined the Department, and even though it is a male dominated profession, there are more females joining the ranks. While I am beyond honored to be the first female President, respectfully I don’t focus or dwell on that. The past presidents before me were male but they also were operational members. The President’s position doesn’t require the person to be operational, but I think there is an advantage by having been so. I might be disadvantaged in that capacity, and I still might have to prove myself in certain situations, but how I view myself is doing the best job I can for the department, and I don’t compare myself to the past. Each person that has been president has brought their own uniqueness to the position, and that is what I am doing as well.”

- KVFD President Lynn M. Tantardini
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March is #WomensHistoryMonth and we want to spotlight KVFD President Lynn M. Tantardini. She joined KVFD in October 1990 as an associate member to do administrative duties like helping around the firehouse, planning activities, and attending events, in addition to helping the auxiliary. In June 1993 she was elected to the Trial Board. In June 1994 she was elected as the secretary of the department, taking on responsibilities like taking minutes, correspondence, and accountability for the Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) and reporting all members statistics to the County under the LOSAP program. In August 2018, she was elected as the President of KVFD and is the longest sitting board member, and the first female president in the department’s history.
“Obviously, times have changed since I joined the Department, and even though it is a male dominated profession, there are more females joining the ranks. While I am beyond honored to be the first female President, respectfully I don’t focus or dwell on that. The past presidents before me were male but they also were operational members. The President’s position doesn’t require the person to be operational, but I think there is an advantage by having been so. I might be disadvantaged in that capacity, and I still might have to prove myself in certain situations, but how I view myself is doing the best job I can for the department, and I don’t compare myself to the past. Each person that has been president has brought their own uniqueness to the position, and that is what I am doing as well.”
 - KVFD President Lynn M. Tantardini

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Wonderful spotlight on a great woman!

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Welp, you're definitely the prettiest one on that wall!! Norm's a close 2nd

Yes, that is my sister! An honor very well deserved!

Happy St Patrick’s Day! The rain has stopped and we are here at BabyCat Brewery, live music, food, great beer.

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Happy St Patrick’s Day! The rain has stopped and we are here at BabyCat Brewery, live music, food, great beer. 
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Happy St Patrick’s Day!!! 💚

Ah, looks like Almost laying-out! 🤗.

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Remembering Sergeant John Carter

On the early morning hours of October 24th, 1997, box alarm 872 was transmitted for the building on fire at 4th and Kennedy Streets, N.W. in Washington, D.C.’s Fourth Battalion. First arriving units reported a liquor store with smoke showing. Sergeant John M. Carter of the 1st Battalion was assigned to Engine Company 14 during this incident. While operating on this box alarm, Sergeant Carter unfortunately perished.

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